Roll Call 21

Does food poisoning make the food taste odd?

It's really hard to get sick from beef...chicken yes but beef no that's why they are always recalling it if they even detect E. coli then they send it back to the factory to be destroyed where chicken can't be made clean so you always have to cook it through but you can still get sick from heat stabile toxins if enough bacteria have grown. This is why so many people can get away with eating undercooked hamburger even though you're supposed to cook it through...like with steaks you only need to sear off the outside and the rest can be totally raw...but you would never think of that for chicken because it's so bad.

thanks guys for encouragement. next step: wait til 4am to get up. get to the airport at 6am or so. catch my flight at 7.

ill keep you all updated.

Lol, by the time I would need them they would probably come up with cooler accommodations.

I'm assuming yes but evidently not enough for me because I kept on eating the food the last time I got food poisoning.

Well, this helps ease my mind. Thank you. My knotted stomach thanks you too.

When I got food poisoning several years ago it was from under-refrigerated tofu and broccoli chinese food. Oh man, that was hell and had to be hospitalized.

Today was a rough day. I really needed a spring break to recuperate from my midterms, but since I didn't have one I'm struggling pretty badly now. I kind of want to bail out of going to class tomorrow, but the prof will be going over questions for our test on Thursday. I'm busy everyday this week and I can't really handle it. I need a day where I have it completely off so I can take an extra dose of my risperdal and sleep in.

For the ladies....kind of had to share this one

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Lol did you find those soccer players on a reddit thread

Yep...sure did

I go on reddit occasionally, but I don't have an account. Maybe I will create one when I'm not manic.

Should I go to class tomorrow? I'm manic and feel too overwhelmed by everything. Too many chores and college and work. I keep breaking down and I'm worried I'm going to try to off myself again.

Or create one when you are manic and do an AMA on it.

I did an AMA on reddit about having schizophrenia, but I don't encourage anyone to look for it... It's kind of personal.

Yes I realize how contradictory that sounds lol.

I'm sorry you're going through that. Maybe take a sick day?

so i told T that i want to get off risperdal and try Latuda. he seemed ok with it but said we have to be very careful. we are meeting with pdoc tomorrow to make the change. im excited!!!

I am f-ing scared for my family's "life." All I hear from the world is, "everything's great." The economy is improving at the quickest rate in many, many YEARS. Of course, not affecting us in any way shape or form. Mom is dying and probably will need to go into the hospital within hours to days. Once again, mom's life is on the line. Severe asthma attack, severe bronchitis with a risk of it turning into pneumonia. A lot of people will say, "at least we have our health." That is when talking about when things are going wrong in there lives. We can't even have THAT. I predicted that each and every year will get worse and worse for us, and once again, I am sadly correct. I am desperate for some good news in my life. I am surprised that with the tremendous stress this year so far, that it hasn't induced a complete psychotic break with hospitalization. I have no clue how that's possible. Even during times of less stress than this, it usually happens (that I am hospitalized with psychosis). Mom's big breaking "good news" for us recently came in the form of "winning" $25 from the lottery. Then I question this: How much did you spend to win that $25? Probably hundreds. I HATE being the realist in the family. I see reality, the rest of my family is locked away in happiness. Thinking that everything will magically work out. The only thing that is making me happy is the game I mentioned earlier.

JunkDNA, if you are going on Latuda, it worked for me. It took away most of the hallucinations and is probably the very reason why I haven't been hospitalized with psychosis.

I actually thought about creating one or making a tumblr about myself, but I would be worried about someone finding me. I write short stories about my illness and other things

I think I will, luckily I'm just manic and not super psychotic. My hallucinations haven't been too bad, but my paranoid thoughts and other things have been giving me panic attacks. I only talk about my illness here since none of my friends understand what I'm going through. A lot of people think I'm normal or forget I have a mental illness unless they see me everyday so sorry if I sound whinny, this is one of the few support systems I have :/

Hello medical fox, I'm sorry about what's happening. I had a manic episode last year while in the hospital for psychosis. I couldn't sleep, had to talk 24/7, I accidentally woke everyone on the ward up (still feel guilty over that), dancing all over the place but that particular episode was med-induced. I've had other manic episodes that weren't med-induced. Panic episodes suck. I hope you feel better soon. There are a lot of people who think I am normal as well because I hide my symptoms well. That is unless I am completely psychotic and can't hide it at all.

I woke up a ward full of people before then I had to go to a special room that seperated me from everyone, but it was nice to have my own room. My work induces a lot of manic episodes for me, but not all of them have severe psychosis thankfully. I'm going to try to handle my episode at home and hope I get better, I'm at work right now, but this week is a lot better compared to last week so I should be fine.

I feel a lot better and my shift is almost over, if I still feel well I may not skip class.

Sorry to hear about your mother. That must be really hard on you.

Lol I also did a reddit AMA about mental health issues. It didn't go to well. At least I'm not at negative though.

Thanks Costello Yes I was completely mortified

Idk if that was a hallucination or not because it could have been someone being mean as there were people around. It's easy if I'm on my own because then the only logical explanation is that it's not real, but I'm not sure about that one. If it was a voice, it's not the first one I've heard since being out of hospital. It's happened a handful of times and been random words (like "cinnamon"!) rather than my typical negativity. I haven't heard from the man and woman who usually talk about me all the time because somehow the hospital got to them. I can feel them watching me, judging me all the time, but they don't say anything out loud anymore. I think they're trying to convince me that I made them up, like the CMHT believes.

Normally I would do as you suggested and try to laugh it off, but I couldn't this time because I was trying hard not to cry in front of everyone and I knew my voice would be all high and shaky. But thanks for the suggestion

The noise in my head is still here. Idk how long they're going to punish me with it. I don't suppose it's unbearable, but it makes it harder to think. I just hope that it doesn't get louder. I couldn't go to sleep until gone 4am last night because of it :/

Firebird: My Mum is sick at the moment too and it sucks

Medicalfox: Hope you feel well enough for class later

*Willow*

No I was literally cutting them in half with a pill cutter. She said that makes them useless.