Healthwise - I've nearly finished the group therapy on a weekly basis and hopefully will just continue to go once a month to keep things in check. The WRAP programme is really useful for any sort of mental health disorder and I've learned so much about it. Drugwise, we're still trying to work out the best combination in terms of a balance between keeping me stable and side effects. They're thinking of trying me back on Lithium which is a good treatment, the only problem being it almost certainly will mean that my SO and I can't have biological kids together.
I'm 32 and would have to be on Lithium for at least a couple of years and it's dangerous to get pregnant on it. After the two years I could risk weaning myself off it but then I might end up back at square one in terms of stability. The worry is by the time I could come off it I'd be too old to have children as I don't really want them too old. Miy SO has never really been too bothered by kids, he's great with my daughter but before he met me he'd always said that he would never have them. Then I kind of convinced him it would be a good idea as I really would love to be a parent again, I even enjoyed being pregnant for the most part, so we came up with theoretical names. Now I feel like I've built up his dream that may never happen, which sucks. He's said that it's really not the end of the world, he'd rather have me healthy and we could always adopt which is an option I suppose. I guess there's a lot more conversations to have before a decision is made.
Anyway, I was going to be cheerful...
Jobwise - things have improved, I'm getting paid for a lot of sessions teaching at the nature reserve and tutoring requests have sky rocketed, plus I have two exam marking contracts so I'm fairly busy and can contribute to visa and flight saving funds finally. In the long term I'm actually thinking of doing something mental health related, in fact this week I applied for a full time role with a mental health charity so fingers crossed!
And THE most exciting thing that may only mean something to Brits..... I was in the audience of Question Time last night!! (for the rest of you it's a BBC One politics TV show). I met David Dimbleby
Yay for more money, though! Also I have no idea what Question Time is, but if there's any video footage of you in the audience, we'd like to see it