Mental Illness Fellowship Northern Territory 
Hi @Appleblossom, thanks for your thought about stability in the way I relate here. I also love that you think I'm staunch! 
I didn't have any preconceptions about what diagnosis might fit you best. At one level, they are of course just labels. But labels can be helpful, especially if they lead to better medications that might bring more peace of mind. That's how I feel about my bipolar diagnosis - that the greater inner peace the appropriate medications have brought me is worth the negatives. I suppose too I choose to identify with my diagnosis because it helps me find some sort of structural understanding of my particular struggles in life. I hope whatever diagnosis you settle on with your pdoc is of maximum benefit to you.
It's a very tough situation for you both, your son's current relapse. Has he been diagnosed bipolar now? No need to answer that unless you want, just curious because I've followed, and related to, what you've told me of him over time. Especially the struggle with too much sleep, askew hours, lack of will to contribute domestically. And inspired creativity. Glad to hear he was sounding better when you spoke today.
I too appreciate your presence in my life via this forum. I'm glad to get to walk here with you too, and exchange whatever we can to help each other get through and even flourish as best we can. And just have a bit of chat, a yarn, or whatever. I find it all helps.
Good morning, @CheerBear, thinking of you as the light was rounding the edge of the vertical blinds this morning. And I thought of you while I was out walking around the backstreets to the bus on the way home from my friend's place yesterday. I walk on grass as there is no footpath on that side of the street. It's so green around here, pretty much all year round. I don't know why that soft springy green grass in one particular back street makes me think of you. But it does! Hope you are travelling as well as possible.
My friend too has to move flat soon. I was around there yesterday helping her start with the packing and check out places online. I may end up organising applications for her too, as there is a scanner here. I have found it's best to have all the paperwork organised as soon as possible. Most of the commercial rental places ask for the same things really and it's been helpful to have the application support documents ready. Then it just means filling out the application form if I want to go for a place. It's so good you have support. My friend is also on the lookout for NRAS properties that might come up in coming weeks.
I've been up all night, give or take an hour or two of semi-sleep, punctuated by coughing. I had to get up, I couldn't stand it. When I'm upright, I cough less. But even in the armchair trying to sleep, the coughs were doing me in. Sitting here at the computer now, I'm breathing relatively easy. That's why this is another long rave.
On the plus side, the chest and sinus problems kind of 'broke' in some way yesterday. I felt better, though still coughing, and was able to go out of the flat independently for the first time in over a week. Not a big trip to my friend's place, but a little walking and exertion. And some exertion with helping her sort out clothes to go to the op shop etc. I really have been ill and am not that well even now. But still fairly cheerful, oddly. 
Hi @Appleblossom, just saw your message, delayed reply because I was drafting the above. Gives me a smile to see you too. Sorry about the nightmares, that sounds grim. Fractured Fairy Tales was a favourite from childhood for me. We are talking about the same thing I hope. The old kids TV show?
@Appleblossom, there's lots of things I've come to appreciate later in life that I had no exposure, or was not interested in, when I was younger. Fractured Fairy Tales are a classic, for any age.
