Sounds like I may end up needing that one if I stay here too much longer. I'm already making jokes about making openings in the concrete block walls by using my head as a battering ram.
@sleepindawg DBT is really important if you have personality disorders or ptsd particularly, and it's really hard to get onto a course of DBT in the UK. If you can get some, please do. I have some books on it, but I'm better at working with someone. Today, now that I'm home, I need to make myself a countdown table to stick to the wall. Countdown to Mera Luna. And my escape!
I'm just reacting to a couple of the staff here, they make me want to do violence because they treat me like I'm one of the more common residents. Just to make sure that we are on the same page, most here suffer from dementia and/or can't make their wishes clearly known. many here are just being warehoused while they and their families wait until they die. They are at the mercy of the staff, and to a point, so am I until I get the paperwork set and can move to an ALF.
@sleepindawg I'm guessing you're saying you're currently in hospital? I'm sorry to hear that. But hopefully it's a positive step to getting well. You're welcome to inbox me if you like, I'm in the UK so my timing might not fit with yours that well, but I keep funny hours. I'm a psychological nightmare, and am always happy to try and listen and share ideas and stories/ experiences if it could help someone. I get the violent feelings. Mine are pretty much usually just focussed on myself. I didn't make my countdown table. I've been working on a new canvas, and then I got grumpy because I sat down on the sofa hard and my partner had slid his iPad between the middle-parting cushions again. I had to sit on a bag of ice. Luckily it just bruised the cheek and didn't go between them...
I'm laughing here and thinking what had happened if it did go between... ... explaining nice young lady doctor why the iPad is there... Did that iPad survive?
9 days until my walking group restarts. 2 days until @Cave Troll and myself have been together for 13 months. 1 day until we have been engaged for 4 months. 25 weeks until we have The Best Christmas Ever.
While I'm still on a countdown to moving to an ALF, I'm now in the place I was in a few months ago and my mind is working a bit better.
Cool I should have been here before this, I'm finally on an actual countdown until I move to the ALF, move day os August 27th! It's about time that there is no more suprise paperwork to stand in the way, I've missed 3 possible moves due to finding out too late that there is some paperwork that's been left undone. That's paperwork that I was not made aware of until a deadline was passed. I'm sure that some administrators have found me to be a bear to deal with because of all this.
I'm excited for you, flawed personality, but also so anxious because I'm living in AZ and I hope it's cooled down by the time you get here! Sometimes it takes a good long while for us to turn off the summer Two days 'til the boyfriend and I go on a road trip to California! I'm excited!!
It's official: 30 days from now, our Problem Roommate is moving out. I can't wait for our kitchen to be usable and our house free of shouting at ungodly hours of the night
