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[kenny66]

I haven't been on the site for a little while as I got put into the MHU for my behaviour. If you are on medication its important to take it.

My flatmate was in NZ for a week so I didn't have anyone watching over me to make me take the stuff on time. Anyway someone called the cops on me before I could do any real damage.

I was pretty depressed that I let myself get into that state. I was also pretty depressed that I cant lead a med free life but I am quite practical about the realities of that now. Funny what an up and down life people with MI can lead.

When I was in the acute care unit there was a guy in there who had quite severe schizophrenia and was blind as well. What an inspiration he was.

I took him down to the shops with our nurse escort, and he could manoeuvre around the supermarket isles no problem whatsoever and knew exactly where everything was.

He could ride the bus, something which I usually cannot do.  It sure gave me some insight and humility into the relatively easy time I have of it by comparison to him.

We've got into a really smooth system where I ring him up from my place and read the paper and books to him over the phone.  So my admission to the MHU had a very positive outcome.

I made a new friend who I can help in a practical way and I got rid of my depression because of it. So I am back to being happy now.

[kato]

hi @kenny66 

Welcome back, well now it sounds like you've had quite the time these last week or so, I am glad you are feeling better, and have met that nice person as well.

Taking meds can be tricky, getting past the depression side of having to take meds for the rest of life is quite confronting, i know as i have also come to realise i will be on mine for ever.

It sounds like you have had quite the eye opener of expierences which is good.

i am looking forward to seeing you around more again

[Hobbit]

Hey @kenny66  ,

Good to hear from you mate!! Sounds like you had a bit of a rough patch there, but what a great outcome!! You've not only got a new friend, but somebody you can help, and that can also help you.

he thing that really made me smile in your post was you last lline - you are back to being happy now. That's so awesome!

As our friend @Rick so often reminds us....hope does certainly endure!!

Good on you!!

Hobbit.

[peace]

@kenny66 hi. Thanks a heap for sharing that little story. I love it when good stuff comes out of what we thought to be bad. Its like that man really needed you and thats what the universe had to do to get you there. That sort of thing. Oh bless you both.

[Rick]

@kenny66 

Hi yer Kenny,

well an admission every now and again is better than an arrest for public nudity.

Yep them meds are just a reminder sometimes aren't they. As if we need one..

I sometimes forget to take them at the right times or I'll take some but not others and it always ends with me having to un crochet myself out of the couch.

It is amazing don't you think how a change of perspective just sneakes up upon one? It's always some person you wouldn'y look twice at and somehow often without them saying a bollocky thing, one developes are wider view and you look at yourself and your life and think quietly 

Bugger!

Well done to you for gwetting out of the MHU and coming back with a brand new way to see.

I truly hope you are well Kenny and am so glad to see your return

Cheers

Rick

[kristin]

Dearest @kenny66 

You are so amazing. Thanks so much for sharing this insight and experience with us. What a blessing you are to others, here on the forum and in the wider community. 

I heartily second what the others said - it is wonderful to have you back. And what a beautiful gift of grace you and your new friend have turned out to be to each other, and to us in the sharing. Wonderful to hear part of the gift for you has been the lifting of your depression.

Take care my friend!

Hope and grace endure, even when we think we're in the poo!

Kindest regards,

Kristin

[kenny66]

@Rick Im pretty well ok with being admitted. I know its for my own good.

The bobbies up here are friendly and mostly switched on about MI. Depression and its effects are a really major issue in this town and regional Queensland generally, especially for men because it is a rural place and it has very high male/youth unemployment at 24%. 

So the police have plenty of experience in the area.

I know a lot of the acute care nurses at the hospital who are really nice.  Some of the time I see people I have met there before as patients so there can be a bit of continuity.

I try to keep revising my perspective on life hoping to get to a higher plane, maybe a state of enlightenment I suppose.

I have a couple of mates who took a pact with me. Our aim is to only do good, in our thoughts and actions. Banishing all negative thoughts is hard.

My tourettes mate seems to be able to do that seamlessly, maybe because of that gentle naivety that tourettes people can have.  My other mate with schizophrenia, like me, loves everyone so its pretty hard for us to think bad in any event. But we try to be even better than that if we are capable of it.

I pick up on your comment about a change of perspective arising from the most unsuspecting people or circumstance.

People who make a positive influence on my life so far are a guy with tourettes, a guy with schizophrenia and hopefully my new blind friend with schizophrenia. Maybe our broken parts can come together to make us whole.

[kristin]

Dear @kenny66 

Reading your posts reminds me of the Beatitudes. For in the midst of your own suffering you seek to be, and are, a blessing to so many. Peace be with you my friend. I hope you continue to travel lighter.

Hope endures...

Kindest regards, 

Kristin

[PeppiPatty]

Really cool to read from you kenny66@

[kristin]

Hey Anne,

You need to put the @ symbol first - I wonder if it would help you if you think of it as a short-hand "hello" symbol?