So, where to start?  I really don't know tbh.  I guess I'd like this part of the site to be partly therapy for me and partly information or whatever you want to call it.  I just need to do this for me and if I can help someone else along the way then so much the better!  :o)

Maybe a good place to start would be to let you know about all the health problems I have to cope with every day and then maybe a bit about how I cope with them and what I do to relieve the pain etc, then maybe go on to all the pills and potions that I'm taking and all that kind of stuff?

Well, my health problems can be broken down into 2 categories - mental illness and physical illness, and then within those they can be broken down into another 2 categories - diagnosed and undiagnosed.  

The undiagnosed stuff I put on here is the things that I'm almost certain that I've got (if it's the name of a condition) or stuff that I live with and feel 24/7/365, but because my family doctor is more useless than a chocolate teapot, he hasn't given me an official diagnosis for them yet.

OK, so my diagnosed mental health problems first (you can find out more about them and why I have the problems I do at my main website):

* Chronic A-Typical Psychotic Depression
* Self-Harm Tendancies
* Suicidal Ideation
* Psychosis
* OCD
* Insomnia
* Flashbacks
* Panic Attacks

As if that little lot wasn't enough to deal with, I also think I have Paranoid Personality Disorder but it hasn't been diagnosed yet

I'm not going to go into too much detail about the mental illness stuff on this site 'cos I've got a whole other website that is dedicated to that.  The pages on this site are just going to explore the physical illness part of me along with any other general bits and bobs I want to put on this site.

So, now that I've said about the mental illness stuff, let's move on to the physical illness stuff - the stuff that is causing my disability.