Should I just suck this up?

[monkey_magic]

OK, this isn't easy for me to write bcas I respect police also but this is my situation.

I aparantly unlawfully entered a friends property, that's right a friends property. He wasn't home and I wasn't believed. Anyhow I was put in a mental institution. I preferred the hospital choice over the police station choice thinking I'll be in there for a couple weeks.

3 months later I came out overmedicated feeling like shite...misdiagnosed with a mental illness as a " safety net" seriously!!!!

3 months of my life where I couldn't work, and live my normal life. Inclosed in a small space, going crazy.

Should I just " suck this up". ?

[monkey_magic]

Hi Sleepy and all,

I do feel we should have more choice about what's being put into our body's. It goes against my beliefs when psych treatment is forced esp when they don't have concrete evidence of ppl having mental illness. Overused and overprescibed imo.

Nerve pain makes long walks very difficult. I can only do short.

My holistic approach and amazing food ( juicing esp) has helped my nerve pain but I still suffer bcas they went against my wishes. It's amazing the medicinal qualities of food.

I still have to find out the book topic.

I do overcome but still fave things. Just recently my mother threw out a lot of clothes I had stored in the garage. I'm very disappointed, very.

[ecomama]

Hey MM!

Your holistic approach sounds wonderful!

I like the idea of your book, I'm sure it would be extremely emotional to write it but hope it would be a thoroughly healing experience.

I wanted to share the info about "bitters" that my Chiro told me many years ago.
You see we've almost taken these important foods out of our diet and we need them, most esp for the health of our nervous system. Ingesting foods with bitters in them maintains and heals our nervous system.

There's the bitters you can buy in a bottle but there's also bitters in some foods.
Roquette is my favourite and really easy to grow! Nice in a salad with parmesan and olive oil - simple.
I like it under poached eggs with vegemite on toast lol.
Roquette is also known as Arugula.

In my own life experience, I'm 100% certain that eating bitters daily saved me during the poisoning era.

Anyhoo this might help.

Love EMxxxx

[monkey_magic]

Magic Em,

Thanks a bunch for your suggestion. I will 100% give it a go!! You're a legend for mentioning it!

Yes, a book will be a healing experience. I've healed a lot already through food and therapy, a books the icing on the cake! Quite a chewy, tough cake, lol.

Been cooking so much today and through this lockdown. Keeping my hands busy.

I hope you and the fams ok, will have to do some catching up with others threads!

Mwah! Xoxo

[monkey_magic]

Hi everyone,

There is a lot of disoray around me due to lockdown and I'm doing my best to stay positive.

I had a boxing session with a trainer today which was so great. I went to a park and walked around, I've been baking, cooking, doing loads of dishes, painted a hollographic, glitter layer on my paper MACHE piggy bank, just doing things to stay occupied and focusing on the good bits.

Its easy to succumb to the bad and fall down and I'm not blaming anyone that does, I mean I did...but I'm doing my best now to remain in good spirits when I can.

Im not working in the office bcas of lockdown and Centrelink is paying my way...I miss driving to the office and working but what can I do. Now I spend my time making a big mess in the kitchen then eating my baked goods.

Mums doing well and still goes to work.

How are you doing?

[Guest_1055]

Hi MM,

I love that you are making a paper mache piggy bank... that is so very cute.

And yeah it is definitely easy to get wrapped up in the bad. I am attempting not to do that myself. I get too wrapped into it then I start to feel fear. Fear is a big fat lier and will steal our happiness.

It's great you are keeping busy. Being creative in the kitchen and all.

And yeah I am into salads. Remember you said you put seeds in yours. I must remember to try that. Seeds are super healthy

[monkey_magic]

Hi Shell, all,

Yeah I put seeds and proteins in salads, need to fill the tummy so I don't have to eat all the time.

Fear can also be a great motivator!

Im doing quite well on the eating and drinking front and I find I still need to eat junk or cheat food to be able to stick to healthy eating. 80% healthy 20% what I want but I'm more like 90%/10%....

Went for a walk in a park today which was great and layed in the sun.

I have many ideas for career choices and businesses that I've written down.

Keeping or trying to keep sane during lockdown.

[monkey_magic]

Hi all,

I've been doing a lot of baking through this lockdown paired with screaming matches with my mum...she's interfering and I'm surprised at just how well I'm doing in the kitchen.

Im really excited and happy for pools to be open as well and have been getting my swim on.

Further weight loss hasn't been happening and I need it to since I'm doing the weight loss competition.

It's hard to not feed yourself a lot during lockdown on meds but I musnt.

Thats news from me, hope you're all ok.

[Ggrand]

Hello Lovely Magic...

Its lovely to hear that your doing a lot of baking since lockdown,,,is that cake baking?..yummy...

I have been lazy and not baking anything lately...Although I do use my air fryer for cooking a lot...which in my opinion an air fryer is just a miniature oven...

Please do be careful when you start going to the pools again..,Do you need to wear some kind of face mask when swimming..or after you get out of the water?...I think I just asked a silly question...

I lost 9 kilos..over a period of 2 months by changing my eating habits..and was pleased with myself..One thing leads to another and binge eating starts again...I wish our moods and emotions didn’t cause unhealthy comfort eating...but in a way I think it’s like giving ourselves a hug....

I wish you all the best Magic...with some career choices..I think you would make an awesome support worker...

I hope you are doing okay lovely Magic...

Love and hugs...wonderful friend..

Grandy..

[monkey_magic]

Hi magic Grandy and all,

I have baked banana bread, frittata, yoghurt cake, etc. I'm doing my best to be healthy but I did bake some Nutella brownies as well.

I just wear the mask walking to and from the pool but definitely not in the water lol. You're cute and funny but the way things are right now it wouldn't be surprising if that was a rule haha.

Oh 9kgs that's excellent!! Job well done!

Air frying is definitely cooking so Pat yourself on the back for that one.

Hmmmm....a support worker, haven't thought about that one.

Lovely to hear from you like always Grandy

💞

[Guest_1643]

Hi MM, nice to hear from you and get updates on how your doing!

The cooking sounds great, it makes lockdown bit easier....

I don't know what stage of LD u are at, is it fairly new in Ur area ? It's been ages here and seems pretty usual. It's nice that the weather is picking up, so we can enjoy outdoor time and it's nice to be in nature .

i have a support worker, they do such varied stuff!