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Sounds as tho you have had a tough time David. Hope your bones heal well and soon.

Mary, fancy doing that to your poor Daddy!

My brother and I would play with other local children in our street (only a few) on the pavement of the 'main' (ring) road parallel to the small service road we lived on. There were huge trees and we would play under them, silly really when there were actually cars, lorries and coaches thundering along the road. Our 'little' road was much safer but boring.

One time my brother dashed after me for the ball I was playing with, he jumped on me (and he was hefty altho two years younger) The old lady next to my parents house nearly had a heart attack when she heard my screams, my brother had managed to push my liitle nose into the sand and gravel that made up the path. Dad being an ex army medic, spent ages trying to wash the grit out of my nose, I still have scarring to this day. I was only about 6 and wouldn't go to school till the scabbing had gone, Dad had used what we called Yellow Ointment, not sure what it was but it stained my nose bright yellow! What a sight I looked.
We also had Pink Ointment which I know now was Germolene.

Lizx

yellow probably had iodene in it Liz.

I think it probably did Ann. My Dad was keen on iodine, he would blow on our wound as he applied it to cuts and grazes, boy it did sting tho even with him puffing and blowing lol

Lizx

My Mother could heal an agonising scrape that produced floods of hot tears by rubbing in magic butter

I have just come across this thread.
Reading through it, I recognise a lot of what is being said, and wish all sufferers well.

My mum suffered from mental health issues all of her adult life, much of which was spent in phsychiatric hospitals.
I do the family research and I now see that her problems were familial.
There were a few, other members of her family with the same or similar issues.

My eldest daughter ( 26 next week) is well into recovery from an eating disorder,.
She has a good diet and takes regular exercise.

We were extremely lucky at the time, and as a registered student, by default, she qualified for Private Healthcare under a policy that we had.
She became a day patient at a well known clinic for about 4months and has never looked back.
A huge amount of her recovery process was based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

6months ago, she developed type1 diabetes which is when the panic attacks really started.
She cannot control her spiralling thoughts over her health issues and believes she may have hypochondria!

CBT should be transferable skill... but she finds it impossible to transfer it

She asked our GP to be referred for some CBT ( she no longer qualifies for private treatment)
She was assessed by a clinic and told that she would need to wait between 8 and 10 weeks to see a counsellor.
That was 12 weeks ago!
She knows that CBT will help and does not wish to take medication unless it's absolutely necessary.

She is calling the clinic today.

I'm on a complex medication regime, and couldn't manage to function without it.

Having said that, I did pay for counselling myself, as it was so difficult to get on the NHS (although I did have access to psychiatric help), and my counsellor was very keen on CBT.

Although I can no longer afford counselling, I do find that what I learnt from her about the principles of CBT does help me to with things, especially with relation to the two anxiety disorders, and to some extent manage the depression, sufficiently to enable me to continue in employment.

For me, the CBT and the medication are both necessary and valuable tools, but sometimes I find it difficult to keep implementing the CBT approach when I no longer have my counsellor to refer to.

As you know Kucinta, CBT does help and my daughter is so anxious.
We may have to look for private counsellor if the NHS takes too long.

We could never have afforded the Private Healthcare that she had 4 years ago.
As a day patient (9-5) our insurer covered the £187 per day cost.
( only because she was a registered student in full time education as per our policy)

There were also a number of NHS in-patients in the clinic at the time.
Their own local health authority was paying for it!

David I chuckled at your phrase "magic butter", I remember the same application to my play wounds as a child. Apparently I tucked away the phrase in my memory as I now give my grandkids "magic honey" ie Manuka honey, for sore throat complaints. With good effect I may add. My 13 y/o granddaughter still asks me for 'magic honey' though she knows the correct name now. Wonderful 'magic' formulae!
:-)

Wonderful magic Mums and Grandmothers! :-D

They certainly are Ann

I ADMIT IT IM IN A DEEP DEPRESSION SINCE LAST
YEARS STINT IN ICU ,BUT I HOPE NEXT WEEK A PHSYCOLOGIST
REFERAL GETS ACCEPTED I CANT COPE BY MYSELF ANYMORE
I NEED HELP ,I HOPE THEY LISTEN,

I WAS ON CITALOPRAM
BUT HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO A DIFFERENT ONE,MY PD HAS
GOT WORSE I CANT WALK AND THIS MORNING I HAD A BAD FALL

I JOKE ABOUT THINGS BUT HONEST IM SCREAMING ON THE INSIDE

XXXXXTO ALL

let's hope you get some help - and soon Dizzi - depression is an awful condition to live with, but with the correct medication it can be handled well

I know that if I wasn't on medication I would be in a sorry state

I'm so pleased this thread is still on the go cos we started it long long time ago now and I do think it has helped people to "come out" and talk about depression and other mental illnesses - they should not be brushed under the carpet, but talked about as with any other condiion, otherwise it is further stigmatised which is not good

Yes, it is good that it is still going, although we don't have the same people posting. Hopefully that is because they no longer have a need for the thread.

Dizzi, I hope that the psychologist helps you with the depression, but do feel that you can come on here and shout when you feel like it. Have you queried if the new med is right for you if your PD is worse? <3 <3

DIZZI glad to "hear " from you but sorry that depression has you in its grips again. So many of us can relate, I have been in a slump for weeks but not as debilitating as you sound, bless you. I do hope the psychologist will be helpful, especially hope you don't have to wait too long to see them.
Group hugs for Dizzi
Mary

THE FIRST STAY IN HOSPITAL WAS A MONTH IN ICU
ON LIFE SUPPORT FOR 16 DAYS THEN A WARD RELEASED
A COUPLE OF DAYS THEN BLUE LIGHTED TO HOSPITAL RE PD DRUG BUILD UP
IN OVER CHRISTMAS WHEN DISCHARGED MY PD DRUGS DIDNT WORK ANOTHER EMERGENCY TO HOSPITAL AND ANOTHER STAY BUILD UP OF FLUID
TO EMERGENCY CONDITION AFTER THAT MY MAIN PD DRUGS WERE REMOVED
AND CANNOT BE REPLACED,I NEED HELP I WANT TO SEE MY MEDICAL RECORDS TO CLEAR THINGS IN MY HEAD,THEN MAYBE I CAN COME TO TERMS WITH NEARLY DYING SEVERAL TIMES,THEN MABE I WILL WALK AGAIN ,,,WHO KNOWS,

I do hope that you get help Dizzi. <3

I do hope you get the help you need soon, Gwen, it makes me so angry that help takes such a long to time to come. I am still waiting since mid June to hear about the case worker the chap I saw said I needed re my ocd. As someone said to me the other day, you didn't do anything to get the problems you have but people who are alcoholics or drug addicts get so much help offered yet they chose to start on their paths. I don't grudge anyone the help they need but wish the chances were there for everyone. I have been trying to get help over my ocd since 1994! So far I have had to find counselling for myself and waited years for that, and now having to wait again. Maybe they are waiting for me to die lol

Maximary, you take care love, hope things look up for you soon.


Lizxx

Hi all sorry I haven't been around for ages I was having panic attacks and started to learn to live with it with help from my doctor

On Monday something really dreadful has happen and I am really depressed I don't no wat to do or how to dal with things

I'm in tears all the time I'm not sleeping can't eat I'm not even taken my medication and I just don't no how to deal with life itself

I just can't stop crying