Just Call Me Frank: Our Endeavour at Being Frank: November 2012

Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Kerry Stott Show Interviews Just Call Me Frank

Those familiar with our blog knows Kerry (@KerryStott), she is our friend from England, we've meet her, we've stayed at her house twice, she has guest blogged for us, she is wonderful. She is a great friend.

Kerry interviewed us a couple of months ago, for her radio show The Kerry Stott Show, and as it often does, life happened, and pushed back the broadcast date.

But at long last, here it is...in there somewhere, towards the end of her show...listen to the whole thing though, bathe in her brilliant (sexy) Northern British accent. (Listen to her radio show each week at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/eghmedia/2012/11/29/the-kerry-stott-show)

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This marks our fourth podcast interview to date, and is probably our best so far (even though it sounds nothing like us, James says, and we agree). We discuss mental health, art therapy, and a bit about us, and have some laughs with Kerry.

In the end, if you have any questions just write a comment on this entry, or, you know where to find us (on Twitter, mostly). Please, no e-mails.

Our Recommended Archived Mental Health Entries:

- Mostly Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder Related
2012

Core Suppression in DID
A Peek Into Id, Ego and Super-Ego
Sleepless Nights and a Hateful Personality
Dissociating Happy Memories
Treating and Curing Dissociative Identity Disorder
Personality Vs. Dissociative Disorder
Associating With Dissociation
Slow Burn In The Switch (written by Melody & Brooke - they tend to dislike each other)
Slow Burn In The Switch: Part II (written by Cassandra - about good switching)
A Non-Memory Memory (Written by Ivy)
Random Memory on Replay (Written by Cassandra & Catherine)
A Face Full of Emotion: A Journal Entry
Comfort In Animal Companions: A Journal Entry (Written by Ivy)

2011

Mental Health Awareness Month: Our Introduction
We Chat With The Father About DID (this post contains information on what DID is)
Frank Gets Candid (We talk about Catherine, one of our alters)
**We Freak Out** (this was a very important day, the day we met Marisa, recoverer of DID)
We Are Fragments
We / We Get Random / We Have Questions
Marisa Answers Our Questions
Frank Gets Candid, About Memories...and Bethany (we talk about one of our alters)
A Note From Frank, and ONLY Frank (actually not written by Frank)
Standby and The Death of the Other Girl: Part 1 of 3 (we start talking about the death of one of our alters [our core])
Our Ears May Be Burning (we talk about what people we recently knew might be saying over Easter)
We Just Need A Good Map (Mental Health Awareness Month Post - Frank talks about DID mapping)
We Don't Do A Blog Post (we talk a little about mapping, Bethany, unicorns & stuff)
We Discuss Three Mis-Diagnosed Mental Illnesses
The D in DID: Dissociation (written by Cassandra)
Bethany Has A Flashback?
We Can't Always Disappear
Who Lives In Your Head? Mapping Therapy and DID/MPD
A Day In The Room (Writing done by those other than Frank et al)
We Have Nothing To Lose (Cassandra talks about the death of a mentally ill "friend")
Frank Lets You Know Bitch (me!) (Bethany got to write her very own entry about herself)
Sam Gets Angry About Ignorance (Written by Sam)
A Little Bit Of Emmie (Written by Emmie)
Sam Gets Set-Off (Written by Sam)
We Answer Some Follower Questions
We Answer Some Follower Questions: Part II
Cassandra Writes About 'Someone Special' (Written by Cassandra)
One of Us Has Sociopathic Tendencies (Written by Melody)
Just Another Fucking Friday Night In The House of Frank (Written by Cassandra)
Emmie Writes About Sex & Erotica (Written by Emmie)

The Other Girl - Stuff She Wrote:

General Health:
2012

Dueling Depression
A Message To Your Diagnosis (our 2012 APA (American Psychological Association) Mental Health Month Blog Party Entry
Overcoming To Get To Your “O” ADULT RATED

2011

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Pain Like Fire

Tonight we can feel every part of our body, throbbing from pain.
We tried to push it away...

From our toes to our ankles...calves and thighs. Lower back and everything from there, to the left shoulder blade. All across our shoulders, into the top of our spine and lower part of our skull. Pain like fire.

The only thing that doesn't hurt, is our brain. But if we're being honest, it's just another kind of pain that resides there.

Two more days of the week left to go. If we could sleep forever we would. Sleeping too much hurts.

Oh, how we'd love to just crawl into a corner, away from people, and their breathing, and their existence...remove a pain. Oh, how selfish that makes us.

We can only handle the mask so long, it grows heavy.

Listening to music...trying to numb our mind...ignore the pain. Pain like fire.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Day Two...

The second day of work went well. Thank goodness we had been going to the gym and doing cardio/weight lifting the last month, otherwise we'd probably be paralysed. The back pain is worse than it has been, but that's to be expected with this job.

The job we are doing, which will end in just four weeks, involves a lot of lifting, walking, and moving of stuff. It also includes having to be courteous (customer service! eeek!)...which is not always a strong point with us. But so far, we've been doing a good job. It's nice to interact with actual people again...kind of. It's nice to see we can crack jokes and be funny, and a smart ass, in more than written words. We had forgotten that we could do that.

We took a look at a house in town tonight. Total passer. Overpriced, and not in good shape.
Hopefully this weekend we will venture into the country (5+ hours away) and take a look at a 20+ acre farm, the most recently (new) posted one in our price range an din the area we would prefer.

And of course, James is still applying for work locally. Hopefully something will come up soon. His working will be good for him (mentally, physically), and good for our relationship (probably). Spending every waking minute with the same person, day in and day out, is not a healthy by any means. More on THAT...sometime soon...

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Life, And Other Plans

Well, I had intended writing something worthwhile this weekend. So far that hasn't been able to happen, for various reasons.

After a couple weeks of trying to get over the heartbreak of losing the purchase of the house and property (Weeping Willow) we've been flailing each day, trying to decide what to do.

It's always been easy to figure out. Just get up and go and let's see what happens.

Despite having been married before, we were never part of the decision making as a couple.
We've been a home-owner before, and have moved all over North America, all on our own, countless times...we have always had an easy time of getting up and going.
But now we have James to consider. We can't make these decisions on our own anymore. It's harder than we thought it would be, having to make plans with another person in mind, as part of couple.

So, for now, in the attempt to at least move out of Mother's house, we are looking at real estate in the city where we are currently residing. Everything will be on the back-burner for now. Our plans to have a farm, grow a garden, live in the country away from people. Our future.

At least with our own space, our own home again, we can have a studio to paint in, and have more private space/time for writing again. And we can try to get out of the funk we keep falling into.

We start our new job tomorrow, though we will be unemployed by Christmas, at least it's an opportunity to make some extra cash while we house-hunt locally.

~ Ivy et al

Friday, November 23, 2012

It's Archive Kind of Night

Starting work Monday, it will be temporary, but it will be good. It will be interesting to work again, it's been just over a year. We're looking forward to making some spare cash, for Gin, for socks, and for Christmas gifts.

There's an idea on the burner for a blog post tomorrow. A religious based one, once again. In the meantime. Archives!

Highlights of what we wrote in 2011, new stuff from 2012.,,It's almost 2013!!!

We write about sex, life, mental illness/health, relationships, current events, art (we paint), philosophy (we ponder), food (we're educated in the culinary arts), and more. There are some repeated under different subjects, because some blog entries deal with more than one subject matter.

First: The Stories of Us - A grouping of all the entries we've written about our past. Contains some material not suitable for sensitive people and those under the age of 18, dealing with abuse.

The Mental Health Entries:
- Mostly Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder Related
2012