A real life Sooty story:
Just a quick thank you to everyone on this thread. This is quite a long post, but Sooty needed to explain a few things to his friends. It will be worth your while to read, well because its interesting and true.
Believe it or not, Sooty has been severely mentally unwell for the last few days. This thread and my little bubbling away about whatever has probably helped keep me out of hospital. Seriously, had a discussion with my shrink today, chatted about hospitalisation, but we are over the crisis.
This thread has kept my mind occupied on our fantasy place rather than personal mental health issues. Even though I may not post a lot. atm I can't read, watch tv or basically do anything, and thinking about Sooty and his adventures has kept me safe and out of the pit of despair.
So thank you for just being yourselves....and putting up with Sooty going off on tangents. Its been a way of coping with real life stuff.
Actually there is another Sooty story here - more real life than fantasy and involves CBD Oil. Something for our Professor to put his formidable research talents too.
Sooty went off all medications 2 months ago, and started using CBD Oil for anxiety and depression instead. Worked extremely well for one month - improved mood and sleep, then it stopped working as well for sleep, so Sooty had a brilliant idea - 'lets put the recommended CBD Oil dose up'....oops, Sooty doesn't do things by halves - he doubled the dose with catastrophic results 2 weeks ago.
The best the shrink can figure, the tiny amount of THC in CBD Oil when the dose was doubled was enough to trigger a mental health crisis. Looks like I'm one of those 1% of people to whom THC is quite toxic in even small amounts. Even my psychiatrist says CDB Oil has great MH potential at the recommended safe dose of 5 drops twice a day. Sooty decided to double it. He is so naughty - and frankly sometimes quite dumb because he gets impatient.
Sharing this to say thank you, but also for any of you with anxiety, sleep or depressive type issues - have a good think about something called full spectrum CBD Oil. Its very very safe at recommended doses, just don't do a Sooty...'it seems to help, so lets double the dose and maybe it will work a miracle.' It didn't.
This is quite funny - it was my 82 year old, very conservative Mum who suggested CDB Oil for me because she was taking it for chronic pain and it worked wonders, and she discovered that it was also very good for MH. My old Mum laughs that she takes a cannabis product now, and how she would never in her life consider any type of illegal drug, but now its legal (and safe providing you buy Austrlian) - she laughs because of the dramtic improvement in the quality of her life. She has crippling and painful arthritis, and CBD has made life liveable again.
In case you didn't know, CBD Oil no longer requires a medical prescription in Australia - it became a legal OTC in Feb 2021 - meaning you can buy it in Australia without a prescription, and its legal. But use it as recommended is Sooty's advice....well my psychiatrist's advice, and I'm paraphrasing.
If your interested in CBD Oil, then one of the best Australian manufacturers, and cheapest, where I get mine from can be found at:
https://www.blacksheepfarmoils.com.au/
As the old Persian proverb goes, may all your dreams come true except one.
PS Sooty has made a bet with himself. At least one person in our thread is on antidepressants, benzodiazepams, or sleeping tablets, and he hopes this post might give them at least food for thought, if not hope for a natural alternative.
PPS lol Sooty hates 'alternative' therapy - all those supposed herbal supplements are just a waste of money and clever marketing. But CBD Oil has clincial and scientific evidence that is growing, so worth consideration.
