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purplepadma

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Hi, I’m Charlotte, I’m late 40s and I relocated from London to #Pembrokeshire in west #Wales five years ago. First year #psychology #PhD student at University of Surrey in the #MentalHealth sector. Interests include #QualitativeResearch, #books, #running, #fitness, #cats and capybaras. Bisexual, cis (pronouns: she/her)

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purplepadma, to random
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Me: I’m feeling so much better, I don’t need the CMHT anymore!
Social worker: That’s great but are you sure?
Tom: Um, you have literally only been feeling better for 3 days, maybe just one more visit?
Me: Oh yeah 😬

purplepadma,
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@williampietri That’s what I was just telling the social worker, when I feel good I can’t ever imagine feeling bad again, and vice versa!

purplepadma, to books
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Heads up that The Khan by Saima Mir is on Kindle for 99p. I loved this thriller about gangland power struggles in the Bradford Pakistani community, just seen there’s a sequel which I will now be buying

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the thing(s) that attracts you to a person romantically or otherwise?

purplepadma,
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@RickiTarr Sense of humour; kindness (to children, animals, waiting staff); shared ethos/politics, decent opinions!

sheepnik, to random
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I am mostly over the cough / lurgy that I had the other week, apart from one thing: my tongue is now really sensitive to getting crumbs or small bits of food on it, which makes me cough. This makes eating more difficult than normal. I'd be quite happy if this would stop.

purplepadma,
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@sheepnik That sounds horrid!

DrFerrous, to random
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My neighbor and friend was diagnosed with multiple myeloma (bone cancer). She is in good spirits and says “it’s very treatable”. This is true, but it’s also terminal and at stage 3 (which hers clearly is) has only a 30% 2-year survival rate. Her docs have not told her this and maybe that’s for the best, but the scientist in me is screaming inside that she should have more and all the information so she can make decisions about her care. /sigh/ I will focus on being her friend.

purplepadma,
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@DrFerrous Oh that’s not good. People should be levelled with by their doctors, she’s an adult and should be treated as such

purplepadma,
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@DrFerrous I think it’s poor on the doctors’ part

purplepadma, to random
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Morning! I’m having so much trouble getting to sleep since I changed my med timings. I was up until 1am again last night, even a sleep meditation didn’t do the trick. Still I had nothing particular to get up for, so I slept until 9am. Social worker coming round this afternoon, I can tell her that I’m much improved and probably don’t need her anymore - but! I want to ensure I can get timely support if things go bad again! What’s on your agenda?

purplepadma,
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@RolloTreadway I’m on the sofa right now! Need to get dressed and go out into daylight, but… not yet

purplepadma,
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@Sharonbw That’s my thinking!

purplepadma,
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@Callalily Thanks darling xx

msquebanh, to animals
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Couple of photos of Asher, from earlier.

I'm having problems falling asleep & put some melatonin drops into chamomile tea to try to ease body into sleep. I was up later than usual because Mom's been having some more high blood pressure related medical issues recently.

#CatsOfMastodon #CatLovers #BestFriend #FurFriend #SDFcats #KittyKindred

A blurry reflection of me, in one of my cat's green eyes.

purplepadma,
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@msquebanh I love the way he’s looking up at the camera

sheepnik, to random
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This is a bit of a first world problem I know, but let me whinge. I used the last of my preferred type of dental floss this morning, and I when I went to order some more a little while ago, I found out that it has changed and is quite different. So now I have to look for new dental floss, and I'm not looking forward to this, as there's so many types of floss that make my teeth feel weird in different ways.

purplepadma,
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@Beedazzled @sheepnik My dentist continues to be very keen on it

purplepadma,
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@thebaywindowgirl @sheepnik @alexisbushnell I had a Tepe stick break while I was using it, the wire brush part broke off from the handle and was stuck between two molars. It took me a couple of days to get it out, I was just about to go sheepishly to the dentist but then it came out. So I use floss instead of the gap is tight

hauntedhideaway, to random
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It's so gloomy I'm going to have to turn on the office light soon.

purplepadma,
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@hauntedhideaway Ugh, hate days like that

purplepadma,
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@hauntedhideaway This year has been insanely wet in the UK

purplepadma, to random
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This French news story of an armed gang violently freeing a prisoner at a motorway tollbooth is like something out of a film

dugglebutt, to random
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One thing that is amazing to me is how professional musicians have completely fucked up fingers. You would never think that millionaire musicians would allow this to happen but here we are. Also NBA players all have completely disgusting feet because they got stomped on by 300 lbs constantly

purplepadma,
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@dugglebutt I’d rather not have to bleach my visual cortex, so I’ll take your advice

helenclayton, to random
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From yesterday’s walk the biggest moth EVER! Ok the biggest moth in Europe maybe…the giant peacock moth. Difficult to get a clear photo without disturbing it - hand in one photo for scale!

The same moth but side-on and partially obscured by grass. One of its long feathery antennae is revealed.
Photo of the same moth with a hand behind it for scale. Its wingspan must be about 15-20 centimetres.

purplepadma,
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@helenclayton @jstatepost Whoa!

purplepadma, to random
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I was soooo tempted to nap earlier but I just about managed not to. I think it was a reaction to some hardcore peopling as I got plenty of sleep last night. Now tucked up in bed listening to the BBC Radio 2 Jazz Show

evacide, to random
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I have spent this week declining work requests that are unreasonable in scope or that make me uncomfortable and I would like a goddamn medal.

purplepadma,
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@evacide @lisamelton Well done!!

BootsChantilly, to random
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Free Pepsis n' Fritos!

purplepadma,
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@BootsChantilly @jstatepost More things should be a-go-go, IMO

RickiTarr, to random
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Alright, I'm not normally a person who talks about my dreams, but I usually have cinematic dreams and this one didn't have an ending, and I need your creativity.

I dreamed I was working at a Mental Health Institution. We were having some kind of government inspection, it seemed really off, they were paying special attention to certain patients. I inadvertently found out that they were from some shadowy organization, and they believed that certain people who had schizophrenia and delusions were actually seeing into alternate realities, and they were planning on taking them for training of some kind. It surprised me so much, that it actually woke me up, and I couldn't finish the dream. What would they use this for and why? Help me finish this in my brain!

purplepadma,
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@RickiTarr Reminds me a little bit of Stephen King’s The Institute, where kids with a small amount of psychic power are shut away in a clinic and experimented on for a secret government programme. Some people think that psychosis is a kind of psychic power…

purplepadma, to random
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Afternoon! Been too busy to tweet meeting up with my auntie, uncle and cousin who are in west Wales on holiday. Not seen them in person for over a decade! Tired from peopling now. How’s everyone’s day going? The sun has just come out here

purplepadma,
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@helenclayton That sounds like a good combination of Things

purplepadma, to random
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I’ve just spent two hours on admin tasks I haven’t had the strength to do in the past weeks, everything from enquiring who to send my sick note to some financial stuff to trying to get a sitter for Miss Cinnamon when we go away in July. Very tired now! But pleased with what I’ve achieved

purplepadma,
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@teamNotLeafy Winning!

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