my mental health and mindfulness
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 5:08 pm
I have mental health problems av had them for a long time
I have Depression , OCD, I hear voices and see things i also have an eating disorder and i self injure
I know i need to work with myself to change this and am seeing some one soon for the OCD
but am in the uk and under the NHS it takes a while before i will see anyone
Am trying not to self injure as much as i can but things have been hard for me and my husband ( my husband also self injures )
we just lost my husband granddad to cancer and I nearly lost my mum to cancer but she is better now but has to use a wheelchair
There are other stress as well
With the OCD i wash my hands a lot and i keep thinking that am going to hurt people or hit people who i don't know
i keep thinking something bad is going to happen to people i love and if i dont do a certain thing its will be bad
my voices and seeing things i get medication for and for my depression and OCD
I cant get help for my eating disorder am restrict to eating 500 - 1000 calories a day and do exercise i have asked to see someone about it but because am obese they will not do anything about my BMI would have to be 17 my BMI is 39
so i have loads to lose I have tried healthier ways of losing weight but i find that i binge eat as well
I also make myself throw up as well
I have read about mindfulness i don't think i can understand it much but i have wrote things down when i have felt like self injuring and it helps but today things have been very hard and i self injured this morning my husband self injured yesterday
we both need to stop this but we are find thing very hard right now
I have a book called mindfulness for dummies and its been helpful
Anything that i can do to learn mindfulness would be helpful
Thank you
I have Depression , OCD, I hear voices and see things i also have an eating disorder and i self injure
I know i need to work with myself to change this and am seeing some one soon for the OCD
but am in the uk and under the NHS it takes a while before i will see anyone
Am trying not to self injure as much as i can but things have been hard for me and my husband ( my husband also self injures )
we just lost my husband granddad to cancer and I nearly lost my mum to cancer but she is better now but has to use a wheelchair
There are other stress as well
With the OCD i wash my hands a lot and i keep thinking that am going to hurt people or hit people who i don't know
i keep thinking something bad is going to happen to people i love and if i dont do a certain thing its will be bad
my voices and seeing things i get medication for and for my depression and OCD
I cant get help for my eating disorder am restrict to eating 500 - 1000 calories a day and do exercise i have asked to see someone about it but because am obese they will not do anything about my BMI would have to be 17 my BMI is 39
so i have loads to lose I have tried healthier ways of losing weight but i find that i binge eat as well
I also make myself throw up as well
I have read about mindfulness i don't think i can understand it much but i have wrote things down when i have felt like self injuring and it helps but today things have been very hard and i self injured this morning my husband self injured yesterday
we both need to stop this but we are find thing very hard right now
I have a book called mindfulness for dummies and its been helpful
Anything that i can do to learn mindfulness would be helpful
Thank you