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The EADD Mental Health Support Thread

My allotment is good for my mental health.

is fuck all spiritual about it, this year we didn't even grow a lot down there, we do tend to drink and smoke a lot there.

nice place to escape, we ain't got our own garden at home. Spend a lot of time in the summer with me wife and son, or with friends, or summer evenings/nights down there with music.

It's just another thing I enjoy in life, anything you enjoy is good for your mental state, well for me anyway, so i try and do as much as i can that i enjoy, and as little as possible that I don't enjoy.
 
The allotment has a noble history. In the bleak manufacturing towns, it was the closest industrial wage slaves got to nature and waiting lists were long. Now people can't be bothered and site after site is sold for 'development'. Fine as long as Tesco continue to import your peas from Kenya, I suppose. Whatever you do with it, a home with a garden is better than one without.
 
^ Very well said Mr Monkey.

My mental health seems to be fine unless I'm all over the place and overdoing the drugs, which can make me a bit anxious/edgy. Doesn't happen very often these days. Also if I've been drinking far too much over a week or two when I get back on the health kick for the first couple of days I feel anxious and anti social, but it passes quickly.

I find exercise massively helps my mental state. Socialising is very important too, if I'm not out enough seeing my mates I tend to get a bit mopey and lack motivation. I think the healthier you are with what you eat, exercising, socialising, good sleep pattern etc the better your state of mind.

haha i will. feeling better than expected how you doing today mr cockstar96?

I feel fine now mate no 2 day hangover, luckily, was sure it was heading that way. That's me back on the health regime now til my 21st, been for a long walk this morning and just heading for a jog then I'm gonna hit the weights, chin ups, sit ups etc. Stopped eating cake, puddings etc yesterday. Still need to get my sleep pattern back to normal been going to bed around 4-5am lately.

You cured from the meph comedown? Glad I never touched any stims at new year, last thing you want to start the new year is a comedown!
 
Waiting lists for allotments are very very long again now charlie, they are fashionable amongst a certain breed of middle class pseudo-hippy.
 
The allotment has a noble history. In the bleak manufacturing towns, it was the closest industrial wage slaves got to nature and waiting lists were long. Now people can't be bothered and site after site is sold for 'development'. Fine as long as Tesco continue to import your peas from Kenya, I guess.

waiting lists for allotments are now higher than ever, i've been on the waiting list in my area for a couple of years, some areas of the country the waiting lists are as high as 40 years (source).
 
I couldve 'ad one last year, but decided not to because after eons of thought & consideration, I know I'm too much of a perfectionist to make it work and give it thee attention it deserves. the allotment peeps I met while researching were A1 and then some, tho. coolest buncha peeps on thee planet.
I wouldnt even remotely be able to do them justice and be a good neighbour

allotments = awesome
 
Waiting lists for allotments are very very long again now charlie, they are fashionable amongst a certain breed of middle class pseudo-hippy.

take bristol and the st werburghs area for example..... its sad to say but if I have a family, im moving there.
 
I'm sharing one with a mate, I think allotments should be prescribed to depressed people in place of SSRIs
 
I'm sharing one with a mate, I think allotments should be prescribed to depressed people in place of SSRIs


Right!

As are the posters who talk of the changed allotment demographic. The retired 'working class' allotment tillers are outnumbered by presumably gardenless bourgeoisie. The new 'underclass' doesn't do allotments, ok, which may be why councils thought it fine to sell them off. One point for the 'green revolution'.
 
I read the first page, but not the next three yet.

I've definitely got mental health problems. I have struggled with depression and anxiety for years and years now and I am struggling to see a light at the end of the tunnel even now. I was pretty hypomanic recently for a few weeks but then from tuesday night until today I've spent the whole time in bed except for to get small tiny amounts of food and to use the toilet. Today at about 9am I received the last stimulants that I will ever do and have finished them all already, I can only imagine that the comedown is most likely going to make the recent week of depression even worse tomorrow and next week.

My cycles of activity and depression used to be pretty obvious and long and it seems they are getting shorter, if I were to label myself I would label myself as having rapid cycling bipolar disorder but I don't want to give myself a label. I want to get rid of them all.

I'm pretty sure that recreational drugs and self medication which was followed by doctors tapering me off my self medication has made everything worse and this has continued for about 8 years now. I am not sure whether before drugs I ever even had a mental health problem, I can't remember having one, drugs and my mental stability are kind of like the chicken and the egg. I honestly don't know if I started self medicating because I had a problem or if there was no problem at all and I started using drugs out of curiosity and then when I got into benzos it made everything worse.

I dunno anymore. I really don't know how I am going to get myself better. The only two options that I think I have at the moment are quitting all drugs(can't stop benzos yet because of tolerance/rebound anxiety/need to taper down) or just quitting altogether :\

This has been the worst year in my life and this month has probably been the worst month out of the year, and this week has been the worst week out of that month, and even though today was filled with being fucked on stims this day is the last day of the year and has most likely been the worst day of the week, actually I dunno, I think the worst day of the week was wednesday. Right now though, it feels like now is the worst hour out of the worst day out of the worst week out the worst month out of the worst year of my life. So I'm pretty depressed right now and I really have no motivation to get myself out of it. Just want to stay in this bed forever and never deal with life again.

This has been a bit of a rant.

Yeah, I'm depressed, it will most likely pass soon if the spin down into depression is anything to go by, but I can't be sure.

All I can be sure of is that I need to cut out the drugs and alcohol if I am to have a chance of getting through this.

Sorry for the massive long ramble.


Give yourself a chance to be clean for several months at least.
Then see how depressed you feel.
I felt/feel much the same as you, but I put it down to having no decent company and drug addiction. (mostly the former).

Pills of any kind will rarely provide any help. Remember you're a product of your environment.
 
The mental health Charity MiND have an allotment patch in my City, i participated in its upkeep this summer .

I suspect that their are plenty of other charities , that have allotments all over the country .

Also no class talk in this thread please ;) it's tiresome. N has fuk all to do with Mental Health . Cool ?
 
Right!

As are the posters who talk of the changed allotment demographic. The retired 'working class' allotment tillers are outnumbered by presumably gardenless bourgeoisie.
.

We're gardenless, we've got a small sunny yard at home, but no garden...so we got an allotment, some years we grow a lot of veg, other years not so much, one year we planted a lawn when me son was crawling, that's up now and we'll plant a crop in it next year...we change around to suit our needs....

I DO live in a fairly hippified bit of Devon, dreamcatchers, leatherwaistcoats, and felt hats abound....

Our allotments, we got our plot 8 years ago, there were a few plots begging at the time so we managed to pick a nice high up one at the top of a south facing slope, lovely :D, suddenly about 3-4 years ago all the plots got snapped up by Tarquins and Jocastas who almost certainly have gardens at home, but they have pounced on this (TV generated) fashion for the organic green movement thing, and grow kohl rabi, and gojiberries, and other underperforming, rarely eaten crops.

I don't care who has a plot down there, but as Charlie says, it's NOT an underclass thing now,where people are growing to feed their families, most of them are growing to impress neighbours or other yummy mummies at the school gate.
 
Also no class talk in this thread please ;) it's tiresome. N has fuk all to do with Mental Health . Cool ?

Shit sorry brimz... :(

I had a go at peeps for derailing this thread before, but I'm the guilty party this time.

I won't go on any more....

but my allotment is one of the things that contributes to my mental good health. (and prime physique ;) )
 
Shit sorry brimz... :(

I had a go at peeps for derailing this thread before, but I'm the guilty party this time.

I won't go on any more....

but my allotment is one of the things that contributes to my mental good health. (and prime physique ;) )

I'm with you all the way , on the therapeutic values of growing produce and maintaining a plot its good for the mind .
Just don't think we need the class talk in this thread , i'm sure the it won't take long for the opportunity to go all Class warfare will present itself soon enough somewhere in EADD ;)
 
If only the proles were still sticking it to The Man with parsnips, we'd have had no need to riot then, I tell thee.

Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll get back on topic. ;)
 
leatherwaistcoats, and felt hats abound....

I thought you said you don't know much about the gay scene? Sounds like you live in some oddball gay fettish district! Southerners..
 
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