Called my mother this evening. Half an hour arguing about my behaviour problems and what I should be doing about them. She started out by asking me if I was doing nicely on my own. What did she mean? I didn’t know. Said something about cooking. Then, my mother got to speak of arranging my [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Discussing My Behaviour with My Mum Once Again
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Personal on January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Studying Updates and Thoughts on a Discussion with Sigrid about Mental Health
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, College / University, Personal, Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare on January 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Planned next week’s studying with help from first Ellen and later Arda. Got it done quite nicely until I freaked out at my psychology project and the orientation to Saxion’s programmes and career psychology assignments. Elma had suggested on Monday that I ask Koos to allow me to hand in psychology later (has to be [...]
Discussing My Studies with Arda and Thoughts on Eating Dinner in My Own Apartment
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, College / University, Personal, Training Home on January 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The weather is extreme today. Heavy stroms and lots of rain. In January! Four people died from being hit by falling trees and the like. Because of the weather, Marianne took me to fitness by car and Arda took me home. Last week Thursday, we also had a storm, but that one was less severe.
Spoke [...]
Discussion with Renee Today
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Personal, Training Home on January 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Was reasonably good at explaining the recent feelings to Renee. At first she kept telling me all of the same paradigms about making choices and not trying and all that, but I finally got it through to her that it confuses me when they have ever-changing paradigms and resultingly ever-changing expectations of me. She got [...]
Mental Health Appointment
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Personal, Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare on January 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So, I had the follow-up admission thing at the mental health place. It went better than last time and there were several factors contribuing to this. One was that I was more prepared: I knew what the staff’s reasons were for having me go to mental health, I knew what was written on the questionnaire [...]
School and Training Home Confusion and Upcoming Mental Health Appointment
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, College / University, Personal, Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare, Training Home on January 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I feel extremely confused. Freaked out at school for the first time – well, the first time I really freaked out. Missed communication skills class. Don’t think I quite care. Wandered all over the third floor throughout the class. Hell, I didn’t know one could get lost on a single floor. Eventually, I ran [...]
Thoughts on the “Ashley Treatment”
Posted in Disability Advocacy on January 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been putting off writing about the “Ashley treatment” – a case of a nine-year-old, severely cognitively and physically disabled girl whose parents put her on hormone treatment to attenuate her growth – for a few days, because I don’t want to do another careless “this is child abuse” rant. Though I do oppose the [...]
Thoughts on Paradigms about My Situation and Staying Motivated for Training
Posted in Independent Living, Personal, Training Home on January 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Made some good progress in book scanning this evening. In fact, I finally finished scanning all my readers for this quarter except for the communication psychology reader that I still have to buy next Monday. The career psychology reader was difficult to scan and we have a really difficult assignment for this class. Arda seems [...]
Thoughts on Being Confronted with My Current Situation
Posted in Personal on January 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When at the rehab centre for computer training (MS Outlook) today, I ran into Petra, a woman who was at the centre for leisure and volunteer work rehab when I was doing my basic rehab, and who is now finishing her programme cause she was home with a broken leg all of 2006. She asked [...]
Family Doctor and Training Home Updates
Posted in Behavioral Difficulties, Personal, Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare, Training Home on January 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I got the referral, but it didn’t go the way I wanted it to go at all. Pretty much, Renee asked for it, cause I was majorly “locked up inside” and the only things I managed to say were that it wasn’t working out and to confirm Renee’s suggestion that no evaluation regarding the [...]
