I’m all recovered from the Blogathon now, having got lots of lovely sleep Sunday night! I’m delighted to report that my sponsorship total is approximately £71 (I’ve been sponsored in pounds, euros and dollars, variously) – so far, that is. Because yes, it’s still possible to sponsor me – pledges are staying open on the [...]
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July 28, 2009 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • sponsors
Filed under: Bipolar Disorder, Blogathon
Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • sponsors
July 26, 2009 by Lou · 3 Comments
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • sleep • sponsors
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • sleep • sponsors
Stick a fork in me, I’m done! That was fun, but so exhausting! I’m really glad I made it to the end. See you next year, Blogathon!
Once again, many thanks to my wonderful sponsors, Lazulus, Carla, Omega, Mandy, Heather and Mum! It’s still possible to pledge sponsorhip until 2pm BST Tuesday if you’d like to [...]
July 26, 2009 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: depression • manic • medication • mental health • q&a
Filed under: Bipolar Disorder, Blogathon
Social Tagging: depression • manic • medication • mental health • q&a
lunamorgan asked “What was diagnosis like? How did you get it all sorted, because from what I’ve heard, it’s really hard to get a proper diagnosis of bipolar, what with most people not seeing doctors during manic phases.”
There were stages to my diagnosis, and it probably didn’t help that I moved from Beverley into Hull [...]
Less than an hour to go, and a good thing too… I just had to check the dictionary to make sure I’d spelt “stretch” correctly. Oh, hush, I’m tired!
Current song title: strangely appropriate!
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Listening to: KT Tunstall – Through the Dark
via FoxyTunes
July 26, 2009 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • depression • manic • mental health • q&a
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • depression • manic • mental health • q&a
Following on from my last post, I thought I’d just write a quick one (I hope!) covering what’s “normal” and not when you have bipolar. In my experience, that is.
As I said before, “normal” is when you can function. But in a way, that’s a reasonably wide definition of normal, and you could be in [...]
July 26, 2009 by Lou · 2 Comments
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • depression • manic • mental health • q&a
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • depression • manic • mental health • q&a
Ptyx asked me: How do we know what’s “normal” and what’s not?
Before I got started answering that, I thought I’d better make sure I understood what she was asking, since there were a couple of different ways I can see to come at it (How do I know when I’m “normal” instead of in the [...]
Well, since I’m suddenly really hungry, I think I’ll celebrate having caught up with myself (I have, right?) by going and getting that toast and some orange juice. I might also reboot the computer. I think it really needs it.
When I come back, I’m going to answer my comments, and see if I can also [...]
July 26, 2009 by Lou · 2 Comments
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • food • mental health • sleep
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • food • mental health • sleep
Which means that I’m not only one post behind. Hooray! Unfortunately, I can’t think of anything to say for this one. How’s everyone else getting on? I was really sorry to see that Renee had needed to get some sleep, but I completely understand why – I was beginning to worry if I might have [...]
July 26, 2009 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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… how quickly I can post several entries in a row when the pressure is really really on! I’m not being helped by either my fingers, my keyboard, or my computer in general – I’m not sure which, and it could be a combination of several things. But everything is sloooooow, and I keep making [...]
Right then, what I’m going to do, in case I’m not technically dropped out for missing an hour, is bring my post count up to where it should be. Which at the moment should be post #42, so I still have a couple to go!
I think I’ll come up with some techniques for keeping going [...]
Dammit, nooooo! Apparently I relaxed I too much, because I only fell asleep on the sofa after I ate breakfast. Crap! Am I out?
Feeling much more relaxed now – my shoulders are looser and my back is happier. Hooray! Time to go and get some breakfast together, then. Mmmmm….
July 26, 2009 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • meditation
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • meditation
So, like I said, I’m going to pop off now to do a quick meditation, and probably grab some breakfast on the way back. Then I shall answer some comments – hi commenters! Thank you for chatting to me! :-) That hopefully won’t take too long, and I can get working on another post with [...]
July 26, 2009 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • depression • manic • meditation • mental health
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • depression • manic • meditation • mental health
I’ve just been thinking that maybe I should go and do some meditation to relax my back muscles and refresh my brain a little… and it’s occurred to me that I could also make a quick post about the subject as well!
Until about a year ago, I was very sceptical about both meditation and hypnosis [...]
July 26, 2009 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • fanfic • harry potter
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Social Tagging: blogathon 09 • fanfic • harry potter
No, this isn’t a flashback to the 2003 Blogathon (where I was… reccing Harry Potter fic). Well, not much. I hadn’t read HP fic for ages and ages, but the new movie made me want to go and search some out again. Don’t know why this one did and the others didn’t. Maybe because I’m [...]
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