Up and away

I have had 3 appointments with Maxine since I lasted blogged.  Tuesday 6^th of September, Tuesday 13^th of September and Tuesday 20^th September.

Everything seems to be going good with Maxine. So far I haven’t had any complaints with her, which is pretty good, Which is pretty amazing, as I have put in a complaint in general over the way the mental health team here in Levin has treated me.

Maxine has been working with me to find Self Help Strategies that will work for me when I have panic attacks. I haven’t found one yet that works for me all the time yet.

I see Maxine again on Tuesday 4^th of October at the Horowheanua Health Centre at 2pm.

I have managed to read Surviving and Moving On: For Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Kim McGregor. It is a big read and it took me a month to read it. But it has a lot of Self Help Strategies. I have written down a few of them and going to try them out to see if they will work for me. It is a worth a try the way I see it.

 

I am now on 150mg of Amitripyline. I seem to be responding to Amitripyline really well. I seen Dr Keri Ratima yesterday (Thursday 29^th of September) she is happy with the way I am responding to them and commented how much better I look now. She asked if I have noticed the changed within myself, which I have, as I seem to be having more up day than down days now. Dr Keri Ratima said that I am going to be on Amitripyline for at least 2 years. If I have any say in the matter I defiantly won’t be on them for that long.

 

I have been to respite at St Dominic’s in Feilding. I didn’t have a very good time or didn’t get to relax much at all. I will post the dairy type thing I did each day while I was there. And most likely will put up some photos of St Dominic onto my blog as well. But I missed home heaps and by the Sunday night I was all ready to head home.

 

I finally got my way with mental health and got changed over to the female mental health doctor about a month ago. But I am still waiting for appointment to see her.

 

I have made a complaint about the service I have been getting with mental health. I did the complaint thru Tina Auckram at the Palmerston North office of Nationwide Health and Disability Advocacy Service. Mid central have received the complaint and now it is a waiting game to hear back from them about the complaint and see if they are prepared to have a meeting to discussed my complaint. I just hope it isn’t dragged out like it way the last time I put a complaint in so fingers cross for that.

 

I am still not sleeping very well at night. Not sure what to do about it to be honest. And my panic attacks are still happening but not as bad as it was about a month ago. So the panic attacks are starting to become less now so hopefully it is becoming less and less over time. All I can do is keep my fingers cross that the panic attacks will disappear with a bit of time.

 

Things in general have been fairly good since I have last blogged. I feel I am coping with the depression a lot better now. I haven’t been in a police cell for some time now, which is a plus for me and less stressful on everyone else involved. Things on the hole are improving but still a long way to go yet.