List just one thing you did today

[Cutesie]

Laundry (in process)

 

[FayetheAspie]

I had tea time twice today. In fact, I'm still drinking the second one.

 

[blitzkrieg]

Transferred a bunch of computer data.

 

[daniegirl6224]

Successfully disassembled a giant bird cage. I have been dreading it and it is done

 

[Metalhead]

I just took some Benadryl. Come, sleep, let me escape this crap world until I have to return to the office.

 

[AprilR]

Went for shopping

 

[thejuice]

I just took some Benadryl. Come, sleep, let me escape this crap world until I have to return to the office.

Is this a new coping mechanism? I heard sleeping pills are addictive. The hangovers are brutal. I know all you want do is sleep. Sleeping too much is the worst thing for your mental health i find, almost as bad as not enough sleep. Then the pill withdrawal on top of that, Must be a nightmare. (forgive pun ) When i sleep too much the world closes in, it seems like looking through the wrong end of a telescope. Anxiety and hopelessness goes through the roof. How quickly we forget what normality feels like and how it feels like it will always be this bad. Not a nice place to be.

 

[Cutesie]

Is this a new coping mechanism? I heard sleeping pills are addictive. The hangovers are brutal. I know all you want do is sleep. Sleeping too much is the worst thing for your mental health i find, almost as bad as not enough sleep. Then the pill withdrawal on top of that, Must be a nightmare. (forgive pun ) When i sleep too much the world closes in, it seems like looking through the wrong end of a telescope. Anxiety and hopelessness goes through the roof. How quickly we forget what normality feels like and how it feels like it will always be this bad. Not a nice place to be.

The pills that I was given for sleep - trazodone - started giving me some bad side effects during the day: headache, tiredness, achiness, pain in and around my mouth. I remembered that the same thing happened during the short time that I took it thirteen years ago. Being that it's a PRN (not required, taken when I want), I stopped taking it, and the symptoms went away or were reduced.

 

[TBRS1]

Today I add 2 new fingers to the harp strings. After this, only 2 more to go!

 

[Mary Terry]

It's freakin' cold where I live, and we're not used to it. So far today, I've refilled all the bird feeders, unsuccessfully tried to break the ice in the livestock watering troughs, filled some buckets with water from the kitchen and put them in the two barns for the horses and donkeys, and dumped a can of Rotel, Velveeta cheese, fresh cilantro, and a can of black beans in a little crockpot to heat for snacking later.

Now I'm googling jigsaw puzzles so I can buy one for my nephew for his birthday next month. He told me he wants a puzzle with at least 1000 pieces which he will probably put together in about an hour. I've never seen anyone who can assemble a puzzle as fast as he can - it is one of his savant talents.

 

[Cutesie]

Now I'm googling jigsaw puzzles so I can buy one for my nephew for his birthday next month. He told me he wants a puzzle with at least 1000 pieces which he will probably put together in about an hour. I've never seen anyone who can assemble a puzzle as fast as he can - it is one of his savant talents.

At the group home where I used to volunteer, staff had a unique way of getting a certain resident to behave. He was nonverbal and often violent. They would take several puzzles - each with a few dozen pieces - and throw them on the floor in one jumble. The resident felt compelled to restore order, so he would quickly get down and put them together.

I don't know what the legal bar is, but this practice definitely seemed to me as abusive.

EDIT: Please see my comment below for what's hopefully a clarification of this comment.

 

[Metalhead]

Today, I called 988 and got the same "wait and see" message I get from everywhere else that dismisses my very valid concerns.

 

[Judge]

Today, I called 988 and got the same "wait and see" message I get from everywhere else that dismisses my very valid concerns.

I'm guessing a staggering number of persons are calling all with the same apprehensions.

And totally understandable.

 

[Aspychata]

I calmly explained that l took a break and stayed pretty much out of his way, because l was upset about his gaslighting, but anger is wrong, so l calmed down, but put on Upstairs Downstairs DVD, calm my nerves. And the timeout worked for me

 

[Rodafina]

Made someone a Happy Birthday card and sent it in the mail.

 

[Metalhead]

I ordered supplies to make myself Pina Coladas tonight.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

At the group home where I used to volunteer, staff had a unique way of getting a certain resident to behave. He was nonverbal and often violent. They would take several puzzles - each with a few dozen pieces - and throw them on the floor in one jumble. The resident felt compelled to restore order, so he would quickly get down and put them together.

I don't know what the legal bar is, but this practice definitely seemed to me as abusive.

You have someone in your care who is violent, a threat to himself and others, and you give him a task that distracts him and absorbs his attention so he isn't violent anymore...

...and that's abuse???

Take a look at Monk on TV. What he being abused when he felt he had to put into order something that to him seemed out of order?

Today, I did the dishes.

 

[Cutesie]

You have someone in your care who is violent, a threat to himself and others, and you give him a task that distracts him and absorbs his attention so he isn't violent anymore...

...and that's abuse???

Oops, my bad! I'm terribly sorry. How do I always do this, forgetting to put the proper context and putting in stuff that could make others see the wrong context?

I saw no issue with distracting him from violence by "forcing" him to do puzzles. It bothered me when staff did it just to make him active. Although it's true that laying on the couch all afternoon isn't great, the great distress that they were causing him seemed not to concern them. All they knew was that the bosses upstairs wanted them to keep him occupied.

You're welcome to disagree with my take on the situation, but just know that it didn't happen in a vacuum of abuse. As a particularly nasty example, one of the counselors involved used to literally sit on this resident's stomach - purely for his own entertainment. When I reported it to the manager, nothing happened beyond a reprimand. Like every agency, ours had tremendous difficulty in gaining and maintaining staff, leaving supervisors with little leverage.

I should never have brought this whole thing up, but once I did and messed up, I had to explain a but more. Yes, you've only seen a bit. There were plenty of great memories from working there, but there's also a thick layer of trauma.