Hello Blog,
Large writing today - a list... need an eye test. Need to do a lot of things. That will do.

I have decided to talk directly to my blog now as reading back through a few posts, I think we know each other reasonably well now. Well enough I suppose to know that the blog and I get on extremely well. I talk and blog listens. Doesn't have any suggestions but I would like to commend Blog on his listening skills. Now, obviously this blog is a he, not entirely sure why that is.

I should explain blog, that today I had a think about what it is in a human being that makes some suffer with depression and others not. I am of the cup is half full variety and am a Leo which makes me vocalise my inner thoughts, this means that if I am unhappy I say so, my life is good really so the more mundane things make me pissed off. Such as chronically untidy and in need of decoration house. So I will announce that I am not prepared to live like this to poor husband who works so hard without complaint, that it is time something was done. So we have a plan, at Easter apparently we are to have new carpets everywhere upstairs, this also means that the whole of upstairs needs decorating. Is this an achievable task, I think not but now that I have voiced my upset I feel ok about it.

On meeting nameless friend I shall refer to as Polly, I find she has been labelled by a psychiatrist as having multiple personalities, this cannot be right. She sees this professional because she has had terrible things happen to her in her life, which anybody would struggle to cope with none of which are in any way her fault. On explaining toher psychiatrist, that no one at work knows of her depression, or in her hobby area no one knows there, he has come up with the idea that she has multiple personalities. Now I know I have no qualifications but this is a label too far, she does not think as Jane today, Julie tomorrow etc. she just tries to do the best she can. Would it make a difference if she told her work colleagues that actually, her abused past means that she often feels suicidal etc. I think not. She attended CBT as a child and very much tries to be positive and sees being a happy positive person at work etc as helpful in coping with her depression. Now however, she informs me that her psych think she has multiple personality disorder as well as depression. I could just slap the bloke with a wet kipper frankly, I spent the afternoon talking this through with her and we have decided that at her next appointment she will discuss this 'diagnosis' further and if he agrees this will be removed from her notes. I just wonder if he understands that he has added to her troubles. So I shall see her again in a couple of days to see how she is getting on and in the meantime Blog, am thinking of Polly, oh yes Polly not Julie or Jane or Hamish, So this post is labelled today - labels. My label would be disabled I suppose but am rather inclined today Blog to throw away the labelling and describe myself as a human being just like any other.

Sleep well blog, thank you for listening.