Andy 🐺 @andy@mentalhealth.social

My #introduction toot!

I'm Andy and I'm the admin of mentalhealth.social.

My interests are covered in my profile. On #mentalhealth I've briefly known the Black Dog in the past and work hard to keep him on a leash. My wife lives with #BPD bundled with #anxiety and #depression (though has a grip on all of them) and her illnesses are one of the things that drive me to be so passionate about #MH support and care. Which is why I set up this Masto instance; a safe place to socialise and chat. 👍

My therapist was right. When I leap into (higher cognitive) action, I'm fucking awesome. Like a soaring eagle looking down and seeing all.

The trick is to only keep my eyes upon the things I need to and to know when it's time to land.

Working on it. 🦅

Hm. I need a gentle day today. #selfcare

Breathing and observing your breathing is SO important. I'm rubbish at this, must try harder.

Any Java devs that can point me at best practices for global constants? I've a Spring app I've inherited, have to compare some values at runtime against magic strings (customer codes) for some conditional logic, but don't want to embed them deep in the API.

(I'm not a Java developer by trade and haven't really touched it in 20 years.)

Boosts welcome! #java #development

A healthy, safe welcome to newcomers to mentalhealth.social - if you have any questions about the instance, Mastodon or the Fediverse in general, ask away!

I hope you're doing as well as you can, whatever your circumstances. ❤️

Just saw an advert for the new Tesco Clubcard Plus. Subscription based discounts on (selected) basic requirements for living...if you spend enough. Are people really this stupid? (Rhetorical question.)

A bit behind the times but I just watched Solo. Really fun, some nice side references and overall an enjoyable Star Wars romp.

Mince Pies for breakfast is fine. It's all fine.

Gone to bed early as my last therapy session this morning was hard and the week is challenging enough as it is.

Fucking fireworks, of course.

Not sure why but Stockport railway station smells of seaweed. 🤔🙃

On my way to my last therapy session. Nervous, but I think I'm doing okay. 👌

My vulns are up, probably because I slept like shit and @Jo isn't well. I hate feeling like this, as I get pissed off at everything. Trying my best to say that's okay and connect with myself, at least where the focus of my ire is legitimate. Still... 🙁

I'm going to game for a bit and then clean and cook. That might help.

PS: emotional self, I love you and I like that you're here now, but please stop suggesting things that I know are bad courses of action, thanks.

Watching "Mindfulness Explained" on Netflix. Interesting that it references Mingyur Ripoche and the brain imaging done on him, comparing the neuroelectric activity when he is mindful to an epileptic episode. Interesting, as an epileptic that has meditated since he was a kid.