Mental Health are you coping?

[Princess Pooper]

Half an hour later just a tad more to add to the stress!View attachment 1140778

We've got one next week too. On top of an ongoing VAT inspection and a recent TB test which thankfully was all clear (after 10 months shut down), really feeling it at the moment. Loused out with calves as the paperwork from the TB test came through too late for us to start selling at market last week, then a downer heifer yesterday whose calf died 2 hours after a difficult calving. Off to bed now.

 

[Two Tone]

Amazing what a change of environment can do. Managed to sleep soundly until 6. Then dozed without too many nightmarish thoughts and dreams about the farm until 7.
Feeling much more refreshed and normal this morning.

 

[britt]

When you get back write a list of things that need "sorting". Get one done, cross it off, and then aim for another.
The list will be shorter than the one crashing around in your head, and you will feel that you are getting somewhere as you steadily cross them off.
If there's a really big one on there put the wheels in motion to fix it so that you can see an end to it.
Problems won't sort themselves (although some naturally "time out" in farming) but you'll feel much better as you defeat them and take back control.
I've been a one man band for nearly 30 years and know what it's like to feel "bogged down". The above strategy gets me through tough patches.
There is always and end, to a problem you just have to spot it, take aim and attack it.

 

[Two Tone]

When you get back write a list of things that need "sorting". Get one done, cross it off, and then aim for another.
The list will be shorter than the one crashing around in your head, and you will feel that you are getting somewhere as you steadily cross them off.
If there's a really big one on there put the wheels in motion to fix it so that you can see an end to it.
Problems won't sort themselves (although some naturally "time out" in farming) but you'll feel much better as you defeat them and take back control.
I've been a one man band for nearly 30 years and know what it's like to feel "bogged down". The above strategy gets me through tough patches.
There is always and end, to a problem you just have to spot it, take aim and attack it.

Thanks,
Yes, there is one big problem. I just cannot work out how to fix him. To do so could and would potentially cost me everything.
Even though that very threat was made and ‘in effect’ retracted, it is extremely worrying on my behalf and will and cannot ever be forgotten.
Some things do actually need to “time out” and in this case, probably will.
Therefore it remains and will forever remain an unresolved issue.
Mental cruelty?

 

[Two Tone]

Started taking a 3mg Melatonin Time Activated tablet 20 minutes before going to bed and cannot believe the transformation in my sleep, Mental Health and general well being!

It’s like someone pressed a switch inside me.

 

[Kidds]

Started taking a 3mg Melatonin Time Activated tablet 20 minutes before going to bed and cannot believe the transformation in my sleep, Mental Health and general well being!

It’s like someone pressed a switch inside me.

Good to hear and good of you to share things too as it should encourage others to open up rather than bottling things up.
Hope things continue to move in the right direction for you.

 

[Princess Pooper]

We've got one next week too. On top of an ongoing VAT inspection and a recent TB test which thankfully was all clear (after 10 months shut down), really feeling it at the moment. Loused out with calves as the paperwork from the TB test came through too late for us to start selling at market last week, then a downer heifer yesterday whose calf died 2 hours after a difficult calving. Off to bed now.

Ups and downs. Sold 2 loads of calves so I am less tired and worries about overcrowding / disease are reducing. The heifer was a success story, now up and walking around. Had a sudden sick cow mid-trading standards inspection , a just dried off cow who was fine the day before, treated her after TS left but died the next day (E coil mastitis). No issues on TS inspection, so that was a relief. VAT inspection plodding on - another email query from them on Thursday still don’t know if we have done anything wrong so very stressful.

A bottleneck developing, desperately need to get bulling heifers vaccinated and housed and settled before we start serving and not sure when we will have time, plus a load of fodder beet delivered for the milkers to also get them settled on winter ration. Need contractors to shift some muck to make room for the beet but forecast has changed to rain this week so they will make a hell of a mess. Problem is husband who leaves things to the last minute, if he had phoned contractors a week earlier, muck would be gone.

 

[Two Tone]

Started taking a 3mg Melatonin Time Activated tablet 20 minutes before going to bed and cannot believe the transformation in my sleep, Mental Health and general well being!

It’s like someone pressed a switch inside me.

Very pleased with how the Melatonin tablets have transformed my sleeping problems.
Sleeping so much better with fewer waking events and without so many, if any nightmares.
I no longer have to get up in the night and spend an hour, not in bed, trying to make myself tired enough to sleep by watching television or reading a book.
Such a relief to go right through the night, relatively undisturbed.

 

[Two Tone]

I have accidentally just proved the point that the Melatonin pills are definitely helping me to sleep.

I have resigned myself to the fact that the weather has probably ended any more drilling and my have spoiled some of the last drilling I have done.
Once I had made that decision and realised most of us are in the same boat, it was like a huge weight lifted off of me and even though the pills had helped me sleep, the nightmares still happened but have dramatically reduced in number.

I have always been a huge fan of Dick Francis books. He died a few years ago and his son Felix took over completely from having helped Dick write the last few. The new books always get published this time of the year. My wife tried to get the latest ‘No reserve’ for me, but accidentally got me last year’s book, ‘Hands Down’, which after I had read it, I had given to my mother.
It is such a good book, reviving the Sid Halley character the the Francis’s had used at least 3 times before, that I decided to read it again last evening.

In doing so, I forgot to take the Melatonin tablet before bedtime and have been struggling to sleep since 5 am.
Not to worry!
I now know Melatonin really does work.
And I was quite happy to come downstairs and read some more of the book, hoping it would make me tired again.
Unfortunately, it is such a good read, I’m even more wide awake!
Obviously, I mustn’t take that medicine other than 20 minutes before I go to bed. Or I’d not want to get up the next day when I actually needed to.

However, the point is proven that in may case, Melatonin definitely works!

 

[Gong Farmer]

Always swore by melatonin for help with sleep, with me also the effect was dramatic. But then the powers that be made it prescription-only, could only buy on-line clandestinely from abroad, so reluctantly gave up using it.
If I need it now I eat a few pistachio nuts, they are high in it.

 

[Two Tone]

Always swore by melatonin for help with sleep, with me also the effect was dramatic. But then the powers that be made it prescription-only, could only buy on-line clandestinely from abroad, so reluctantly gave up using it.
If I need it now I eat a few pistachio nuts, they are high in it.

Yes my Doctor said she could if pressed but didn’t want to prescribe Melatonin to me. She strongly suspected it would help me, but the NHS don’t have it on their list.
She told me exactly what and where to get it on line (from Canada!) and wants to know how well i get on with it.

All Doctors in Europe can prescribe it to their patients.