Doodle Chronicles
@doodlechronicle.bsky.social
Student nurse. Lived experience of mental illness, inflammatory bowel disease, and gastroparesis. Undertaking EMDR therapy currently. Cat mum and animal lover.
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A common situation in mental health services, especially for people who are in crisis or have especially chronic & complex illnesses.
#mentalhealth #mentalillness #personalitydisorder #depression #anxiety #bipolar #ocd #psychosis #psychology #psychiatry #chronicillness #trauma #PTSD #cPTSD #CMHT
#mentalhealth #mentalillness #personalitydisorder #depression #anxiety #bipolar #ocd #psychosis #psychology #psychiatry #chronicillness #trauma #PTSD #cPTSD #CMHT
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I hear this so much, and it mirrors my own experiences of using crisis lines over the last 20 years. You get passed around from pillar to post because nobody wants to be liable for your welfare.
Yesterday I called Crisis Line. They said they would call me back. Then I texted the textline. They told me to call Crisis Line. Crisis Line called me back and said they didn't know how to help me and suggested I talk to the GP. I saw the GP last month. They said call Crisis Line
That's the NHS
That's the NHS
December 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I hear this so much, and it mirrors my own experiences of using crisis lines over the last 20 years. You get passed around from pillar to post because nobody wants to be liable for your welfare.
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We are meeting on Christmas Day at 11:30am for a 'no enforced jollity' coffee hangout and then we have our last Sunday peer support meeting at 3pm on the 28th December with Inge and Amanda holding space.
If you are surviving, but only just, we're here.
If you are running out of motivation to go on, we're here.
If you need a confidential, non clinical, non judgmental community of people who are living with suicidal experiences, we are here; ready to share compassion and dark humour and solidarity.
If you are running out of motivation to go on, we're here.
If you need a confidential, non clinical, non judgmental community of people who are living with suicidal experiences, we are here; ready to share compassion and dark humour and solidarity.
December 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
We are meeting on Christmas Day at 11:30am for a 'no enforced jollity' coffee hangout and then we have our last Sunday peer support meeting at 3pm on the 28th December with Inge and Amanda holding space.
Tomorrow I have a hospital blood test, which always ends up about a 60-90 mins wait from the appointment time, and then need to go food shopping - save me!
December 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Tomorrow I have a hospital blood test, which always ends up about a 60-90 mins wait from the appointment time, and then need to go food shopping - save me!
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PSA...
Disabled doesn't mean can't do anything. It means can't do certain very specific things without support.
Disabled doesn't mean can't do anything. It means can't do certain very specific things without support.
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
PSA...
Disabled doesn't mean can't do anything. It means can't do certain very specific things without support.
Disabled doesn't mean can't do anything. It means can't do certain very specific things without support.
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“We’re all just walking each other home.”Ram Dass
This season can ask a lot of people in very different ways.
For anyone finding this season tender or complicated.
You matter. You’re not alone.
🧡
#compassion #care #kindness
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This season can ask a lot of people in very different ways.
For anyone finding this season tender or complicated.
You matter. You’re not alone.
🧡
#compassion #care #kindness
Picture by anxiety positive
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“We’re all just walking each other home.”Ram Dass
This season can ask a lot of people in very different ways.
For anyone finding this season tender or complicated.
You matter. You’re not alone.
🧡
#compassion #care #kindness
Picture by anxiety positive
This season can ask a lot of people in very different ways.
For anyone finding this season tender or complicated.
You matter. You’re not alone.
🧡
#compassion #care #kindness
Picture by anxiety positive
My mouth is getting bad again. FFS.
December 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My mouth is getting bad again. FFS.
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After a grand total of 4 Christmas films and 2 Christmas colouring pages, I have had a recharge day that involved nothing but 'gentle' entertainment and naps
December 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
After a grand total of 4 Christmas films and 2 Christmas colouring pages, I have had a recharge day that involved nothing but 'gentle' entertainment and naps
Woke up from a nap to a Hope cuddle- perfect 🥰
December 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Woke up from a nap to a Hope cuddle- perfect 🥰
First Christmas cocktail of the season! Once I finally managed to keep my eyes open for more than half an hour.
December 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
First Christmas cocktail of the season! Once I finally managed to keep my eyes open for more than half an hour.
What a shit show of a day
December 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
What a shit show of a day
DSA laptop is coming between 7am and midday - like a kid before Christmas, I can't sleep 🤣
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
DSA laptop is coming between 7am and midday - like a kid before Christmas, I can't sleep 🤣
Does anyone else get a dry mouth to the point that you can't swallow/feel like you're choking? Have you found anything that helps other than the obvious sips of water?
December 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Does anyone else get a dry mouth to the point that you can't swallow/feel like you're choking? Have you found anything that helps other than the obvious sips of water?
Christmas starts now! Cheers 🥂
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Christmas starts now! Cheers 🥂
Beyond jittery about visiting placement tomorrow
December 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Beyond jittery about visiting placement tomorrow
Ooh just got the news that is is my DSA laptop coming on Thursday 😄
December 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Ooh just got the news that is is my DSA laptop coming on Thursday 😄
Final presentation run-through completed! With flipping through my flash cards, it took me a bit longer at 21 mins 47 secs but I have an extension that takes me to 25 minutes, so I'm trying not to panic. Just updating timings on my flashcards then putting everything in my bag & forgetting about it.
December 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Final presentation run-through completed! With flipping through my flash cards, it took me a bit longer at 21 mins 47 secs but I have an extension that takes me to 25 minutes, so I'm trying not to panic. Just updating timings on my flashcards then putting everything in my bag & forgetting about it.
I awoke to 2 purring cats on me - heaven!
December 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I awoke to 2 purring cats on me - heaven!
Tonight's sacrificial offering from the cats
December 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Tonight's sacrificial offering from the cats
DSA stuff is coming Thursday. I'm trying not to get excited that it is my laptop, meaning that I have an actual functioning computer that doesn't make life 10x harder, because it'll probably just be a cable converter or something else very unexciting 🙃
December 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
DSA stuff is coming Thursday. I'm trying not to get excited that it is my laptop, meaning that I have an actual functioning computer that doesn't make life 10x harder, because it'll probably just be a cable converter or something else very unexciting 🙃
I'm proud of this page 😊
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I'm proud of this page 😊
I added a lantern for my grandma on the Stand Up to Cancer lantern mile and it was all lit up for her last night 🥰
December 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I added a lantern for my grandma on the Stand Up to Cancer lantern mile and it was all lit up for her last night 🥰
I've decided that I'mjust going to take the hit on marks for reading my presentation out on Mon. I'm not well enough to do any more than I already have, & mum has offered to take me out for a few hours to our favourite garden centre with Christmassy magic. That's my priority rn.
December 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I've decided that I'mjust going to take the hit on marks for reading my presentation out on Mon. I'm not well enough to do any more than I already have, & mum has offered to take me out for a few hours to our favourite garden centre with Christmassy magic. That's my priority rn.
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Sometimes I think about how my local CMHT won't treat my suicidal crises because they feel they'd increase my 'dependency' but I'm out here providing a free, at weekends service for other mad folk on a different CMHT caseloads.
(And people wonder why I'm dissociative to cope...)
(And people wonder why I'm dissociative to cope...)
Recently I've found that mental health service are signposting patients to NTV and that's interesting to me given the state of UK mental health care. Teams with very strict safeguarding framework and high demand are pointing patients to harm reduction, peer led online support.... /4
December 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Sometimes I think about how my local CMHT won't treat my suicidal crises because they feel they'd increase my 'dependency' but I'm out here providing a free, at weekends service for other mad folk on a different CMHT caseloads.
(And people wonder why I'm dissociative to cope...)
(And people wonder why I'm dissociative to cope...)