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Experimental Chimp | The Experimental Chimp is a depressive, sleep-inhibited monkey currently moving through the delightful UK mental health system. Will he get the help he really needs or will the doctors fail him? - The Experimental Chimp is a depressive, sleep-inhibited monkey currently moving through the delightful UK mental health system. Will he get the help he really needs or will the doctors fail him?

  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/about/ About | Experimental Chimp - (updated 25th May 2008) I'm a a 26 year old guy from England. I've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder (type II) and also have a circadian rhythm sleep disorder which hasn't been diagnosed yet (possibly this is non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome). I've self-injured for the last decade. I have lots and lots of scars. I started…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/hey-you/ HEY YOU! | Experimental Chimp - Yes, I'm talking about you. Specifically, the you who reads my blog and doesn't comment. I know there's got to be a few of you. Feel free to say hello here.
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/quotes/ Quotes | Experimental Chimp - None of that insipid inspirational trash here. Just random quotations that caught my eye and resonate with some kind of meaning to me. Literature I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.     — Jack Kerouac, On The Road There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/considering-suicide/ Suicidal? | Experimental Chimp - So you're considering suicide? Been there, done that, got the blood-stained t-shirt. I get a lot of people here who've searched for things like "easiest way to die" or "how to overdose" or "how to slit your wrists". I talk about wanting to die and figuring out what my medication would do in overdose. I…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/755/ … | Experimental Chimp - It's been more than a year since my last post. And things are mostly good with me. But I have to write this and the place it needs to go is here. I'm still well. Things are going incredibly well at work. I've moved into a nicer flat. I'm going back to university later this…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/swimming/ Swimming | Experimental Chimp - Another milestone. I went swimming today. That probably doesn't sound like much, but it was a huge step forward for me in a number of ways. Firstly, there's the scars. I'm used to wearing short-sleeves now, but my worst scars are on my upper arms and shoulders and tend to be hidden by a t-shirt.…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/christmas-with-my-parents/ Christmas with my parents | Experimental Chimp - I'm coming to realise that my mother is just as broken a person, in her own way, as my father. She has a wheat allergy and fibromyalgia, but really I think that avoiding wheat-containing foods is the only way she can find to experience any feeling of control over her life, and the fibromyalgia is…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/andrology/ Andrology | Experimental Chimp - I went to the andrology lab to produce a semen sample today. I walked there after work, so I was still dressed in office clothes, which just made the whole thing even more surreal. The andrology lab is one of those services without a proper reception - so you just buzz the intercom and wait…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/thanks-for-all-the-fish/ Thanks For All The Fish | Experimental Chimp - In a week's time I'll have been writing this blog for two years. When I started, I'd reached the point where all my efforts to fix myself had failed and I simply couldn't cope any more. So I cut myself, went to hospital, and then I started writing about it. It's been a big part…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/teeth-sperm/ Teeth / Sperm | Experimental Chimp - My wisdom tooth is gone. The process was incredibly painless. Seriously, the most painful bit was the injection(s) of anaesthetic. And they weren't much more than a pinch. In between the injection and the extraction, my oral surgeon and I chatted about bipolar disorder - her brother is also bipolar. So that was kind of…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/back-at-work/ Back at Work | Experimental Chimp - So that was my first week back at work. It went well. In fact it went by without any real incident, so it's difficult to talk about in any detail. I have to go through training again, which is being handled via patchy one-to-one coaching with an old colleague. Today, being Friday, was a dress-down…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/goodbye-cigarettes/ Goodbye Cigarettes | Experimental Chimp - Oh Christ. I'm down to my last cigarette. But I have fourteen nicotine patches and 96 pieces of minty-fresh nicotine-laden chewing gum, which should make things a bit easier. These were all free and prescribed to me after my smoking cessation appointment at the doctor's yesterday. It's very slightly scary. Expect anguished "I WAAAANT A…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/my-last-session-of-therapy/ My last session of therapy | Experimental Chimp - It was my last session of therapy yesterday. It was kind of sad to go, but these last few sessions have been slowly edging towards chat. So it's the right time to go. I don't feel like I need it any more and I know my therapist doesn't. The sessions were limited to a specific…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/standard-depressive-monologue/ Standard Depressive Monologue | Experimental Chimp - I've been thinking about suicide a lot these past couple of days. More than I usually do anyway. I find myself randomly coming up with plans. These thoughts don't bother me in the way suicidal thoughts are supposed to. It's not an "Oh God! I want to die!" kind of feeling, just weary, exhuasted emptiness:…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/self-harm-just-aint-that-serious/ Self-harm just ain’t that serious | Experimental Chimp - Last year I wrote about a self-harm advocacy/charity group called To Write Love On Her Arms. Being me and enjoying a good complain, I wasn't entirely complementary about them (although my specific complaints from that post no longer apply). Part of that was probably because they're a Christian organisation and Christian organisations have the same…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/categorising-everything/ Categorising Everything | Experimental Chimp - I've always been one for categorising things. Not cataloging, although there's a satisfaction to that when my life is tidy enough for the things I want to catalogue to be in one place, but sorting knowledge and experience. It's the way I understand the world. It's probably my earliest coping mechanism. I remember the revelation…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/nn-dimethyltryptamine/#comment-35985 N,N-dimethyltryptamine | Experimental Chimp - This morning at 8am I found myself sitting on my sofa, with my headphones on, listening to music. I had no memory of what had occured during the previous 24 hours. I was feeling fine, if a little hungry. But I was very confused. It's now 10am. It's taken me a couple of hours to…
  • https://experimentalchimp.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/hospital-worker-hates-borderlines/#comment-35886 Hospital Worker Hates Borderlines | Experimental Chimp - I tend to look through the Tag Surfer here at Wordpress when I'm bored (for those of you without Wordpress blogs, it's a nifty little gizmo that finds blogs with specific tags). Since I started writing about sleep I've been seeing a lot of posts from extremely tired parents with young children. I also see…

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