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Today Was A Good Day
Written by Sophie on Saturday, April 4, 2009
I was woken up this morning at around 9:15 am to my mother standing in my doorway with the phone and the instructions "sound awake and chirpy, it’s a lady on the phone!" Turned out it was my new psychiatrist and I’d forgotten about my appointment today. My excuse (and I think a valid one) is that I’ve been sick all week with a cold and only managed to get anywhere near close to a full night’s sleep (knocked out cold sleep) last night. I also tend to turn into a grumpy mess when I’m sick.
Anyway, she said it was still fine for me to come as long as I came "now", so I quickly got up, got dressed, got the obligatory lecture from Mum about forgetting appointments and was on my way, 45 minutes after my appointment was due to start. Fortunately the guy who had an appointment after me was running 15 minutes late himself so the appointment lasted 45 minutes once I turned up.
This psychiatrist seemed really nice. She treated me like I was a decent person and she valued the research I had done myself on BIID. We agreed that we were working on issues other than my BIID because we already knew she couldn’t fix that, but she did give me some good insight into the EMDR therapy to help me make my decision about that. My psychologist is nice, but for some reason I felt more comfortable talking to her. She prescribed me Fluox at the end of the appointment when the receptionist was pushing her out the office to her next patient and I went on my way. She told me because of other issues I had like food, and my little problem remembering to take medication on a daily basis (right now I struggle to remember to take magnesium for my tremors each day!) she would put me on a higher dose of Fluox. She said the half life of Fluox was longer so the side effects from missing a few days wasn’t as bad as some of the other anti depressants.
I would like to take this chance to thank Sean for giving all of us here the chance to blog and think through our own transabled feelings here. If it weren’t for him and Transabled.org there is no way I’d be able to articulate who I am to people in real life and that is also something I think my psychiatrist respected. She noted that the benefits of blogging here over a series of years was that I could look back and see what patterns I have in relation to not only BIID but things like depression.
I came home and had Mum nagging me about a CV and cover letter I had to print off to take into a local business. In the end all that happened was that I handed the CV over to the lady I’d spoken to on the phone, she thanked me and that was it. Mum is kind of on edge at the moment because she’s catering for a wedding that’s happening tomorrow. Mum loves catering. She has a dinner set, glasses, wine glasses, table cloths and salt and pepper shakers all stored in the shed for when she does these little catering things. We all know she’s in her element when she’s doing this so the rest of the house tries to keep out of her way and does as we’re told.
Ooo… Something else worth noting… My little brother let me have my allowance early today so I went to the supermarket and bought choc chips, frozen raspberries and ice cream to make me a smoothie and it was YUM!!!
Tags: BIID, Depression, Psychiatrist, Transabled
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Yes, I was wondering about the brother thing.
Hope the antidepressant works well. It does for me.
Glad you had a good day.
3 On 4 April, 2009, Sophie said:
We call it allowance but really he pays me $10 a week to do his washing for him.
4 On 4 April, 2009, Sean said:
Ahh, “fee for service” is really rather different than allowance! Stop thinking about it as an allowance, it’ll help you develop a less dependant attitude towards yourself :)
5 On 5 April, 2009, Seth said:
That’s wicked Sophie. I know that of all the shrinks I’ve ever gone to, none of which know about my BIID, there was only 1 that I liked. She wasn’t one that just sits there and says, “And how did that make you feel?” while scribbling on a notepad. We would go on walks and talk, lunch, and we just talked about anything and everything. She seemed like more of a friend then a shrink.
The allowance thing through me off though. I was wondering how old you were when you said that.
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1 On 4 April, 2009, Sean said:
Glad things went well with your appointment and that you have a good connection with this shrink :)
And thank you for the kind words :)
But… Your *brother* handling your *allowance*?