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04 Mar2010

This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series The Mr Director-Person Letters

In response to this. See also this update. I have corrected a few minors errors in the author’s writing and have, as you will see, provided (italicised) annotated notes of the most rational and considered variety. *cough* — Dear Pandora Advocacy in Accessing Mental Health Services Thank you for your letter dated 17 December 2009 [...]

About the Author

WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS SOME DISTURBING, POTENTIALLY TRIGGERING, MATERIAL AND VERY STRONG LANGUAGE.

Pandora

Your humble narrator is a female in her late 20s from Northern Ireland, attempting to find her way through the labyrinth that is NHS mental health services. Her diagnoses are a convoluted mishmash of:

borderline personality disorder
complex post-traumatic stress disorder
bipolar II disorder
major clinical depression
social anxiety and
transient psychosis and dissociation.

Through intense psychotherapy, she is attempting to recover from child sex abuse, as well as issues of abandonment, betrayal and self-harm.

Much more information can be found on the 'About' page. See below for the archives if you want the full context and detailed story since May 2009.

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I'm in the Republic for Iron Maiden gig, woo. Already intermittent contact may be even more so as I search for wifi. Have a good weekend x
@anniebananie76 @excludeduk @hopefortrauma Thanks for #ff lovelies :) <3 x
@theblacklily @iamechad @hovellinghermit @excludeduk @hidi @zebrapolkadots @crazy333girl @ophelia83 @goddess221167 Meant a lot :) Thanks x
@theblacklily @iamechad @hovellinghermit @excludeduk @hidi @zebrapolkadots @crazy333girl @ophelia83 @goddess221167 Thks for support&tweets x
RT @BeyondMeds: RT @hyblis I have always found the rampant promotion of CBT to be a kind of cynical marketing exercise...
Just had the fun of sitting through what was inevitably going to be a difficult session whilst in the throes of an IBS attack. FML.