My mind is a swirling confusion of thoughts at the moment, as I trudge through a tricky time on many many counts. My ASD is firing on all cylinders right now and my PTSD is doing overtime.
Continue reading “The stress of it all – any ideas anyone?”Tag: stress
De-stress your (and my!) life: step 1!
A very big focus for me at the moment is to deal with the mental and emotional side of the trauma involved in losing a leg (and it actually being someone’s fault). To that end I have a regular appointment with a psychologist. In addition to that I also have a regular appointment with an occupational therapist who is helping me manage the rest of my life, sleep (or lack of), pacing and fatigue. The last time I recorded a video blog I set some goals for myself, and one of them was to slow down and be ok with that. It was me doing that very thing that caused me to happen upon a book that, so far, is possibly one of the best books I have read in a long time (and I have only just started it!)
Continue reading “De-stress your (and my!) life: step 1!”A bit of a blur
This last 7 days has been a wee bit crazy. I feel like my entire brain is currently consumed with how to cover all my work so I know the business will carry on without me. Continue reading “A bit of a blur”
Looking better: why, did I look worse?
Both head teachers that I work for were in agreement today that I am looking better than I have for the last few weeks. I felt this was a positive for more than the obvious reasons: they are acknowledging that I was not looking so good at first, something that I was not so sure that they had noticed. Continue reading “Looking better: why, did I look worse?”