Disaster + Stupidity

ivortripod said:
I was very interested to read of your bipolar condition and wondered in what way is it treated ?
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Usually treated with a combination of mood stabilisers and anti psychotics, altho some are just treated with mood stabilisers. Not been diagnosed that long, so not on medication yet.
 
I hope one day to find this thread updated with news of your camera being returned to you :s
 
Graelwyn said:
100mm macro
80-400 mm tokina
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Okay then, I have a Canon 18-55 kit lens for sale, PM me your address and you can have it, I was only looking for £30 for it so no big loss to me!

Buy a new body and your on your way again!
 
Graelwyn said:
Usually treated with a combination of mood stabilisers and anti psychotics, altho some are just treated with mood stabilisers. Not been diagnosed that long, so not on medication yet.
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Thanks for info..Hope you can soon overcome it,
With best regards..:)
 
EdBray said:
Okay then, I have a Canon 18-55 kit lens for sale, PM me your address and you can have it, I was only looking for £30 for it so no big loss to me!

Buy a new body and your on your way again!
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Thankyou so much Ed, that means a great deal to me. Shall now pm my address. :)
 
I have a tripod going you are welcome to. I have a new one so have no need for it. Its nothing special just a jessops one. but hopefully lessen the pain of losing your kit.

Jessops Tripod TP327
 
SLR Film camera bodies like the Canon 500N work with EF lenses... just so you know. I picked up one of these recently for £16 delivered. Might be worth checking out until you can get a 30-40D again.
 
Graelwyn said:
Usually treated with a combination of mood stabilisers and anti psychotics, altho some are just treated with mood stabilisers. Not been diagnosed that long, so not on medication yet.
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A word of advice from a fellow manic :) Don't let the dr bully you in to higher doses than you need. The anti psychs, I'm on chlorpromazine, really stifle your creative side to the point you don't get passionate about anything.

Do you have more highs than lows or the other way around?
 
i am just always depressed, sometimes mania sounds like heaven
 
I find it hard to believe you'd lose 2k worth of gear and only email the police, it may have been handed in, at least ring the local police station and report it, an email is likely to be ignored, if you speak to someone get their police number and a crime number
 
I know you are gutted but it is just stuff and can be replaced. Your Father and partner cannot. It's very good of them to help with the cost. Why does your partner feel responsible?

It must be a difficult time for you, I sympathise and I'm sure you could use all the support you can get.

I'd definately be phoning around and chasing it up. If you don't feel up to it why not ask someone else to do it for you in exchange for you doing something for them you feel up to.

Feel free to totally ignore this e-mail - it's just my ramblings. All best wishes.
 
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Dave Stone said:
I have a tripod going you are welcome to. I have a new one so have no need for it. Its nothing special just a jessops one. but hopefully lessen the pain of losing your kit.

Jessops Tripod TP327
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Thanks for the kind offer, means a lot at this point in time as struggling to gather funds for body. Shall pm you.
 
Merlin said:
A word of advice from a fellow manic :) Don't let the dr bully you in to higher doses than you need. The anti psychs, I'm on chlorpromazine, really stifle your creative side to the point you don't get passionate about anything.

Do you have more highs than lows or the other way around?
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My problem is, the mania with me, rather than being a high, tends to be the irritation/rage kind, thus more difficult. I get more lows to be honest. Was in hospital Friday night as a result, and the woman who spoke to me has referred me back to the team I had lost contact with. She suggested a mood stabiliser rather than anti psychotics... I am dead against anti psychotics, just the name brings up a massive stigma and images of hysterical, out of control people...though I suppose bipolar at it's worst can make one that way.
 
Tumbleweed. said:
I know you are gutted but it is just stuff and can be replaced. Your Father and partner cannot. It's very good of them to help with the cost. Why does your partner feel responsible?

It must be a difficult time for you, I sympathise and I'm sure you could use all the support you can get.

I'd definately be phoning around and chasing it up. If you don't feel up to it why not ask someone else to do it for you in exchange for you doing something for them you feel up to.

Feel free to totally ignore this e-mail - it's just my ramblings. All best wishes.
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Have left details with the police over there. Nothing handed in thus far. They will call me, I am assuming, if it is. Have approx 450 towards replacing the camera body. Cheapest I have seen on ebay is £500 or so secondhand, so just waiting to get together the last 50-100 to cover that part.

I know it is not so important as the people in my life.
Colin, my boyfriend, asked me what makes me happy apart from him, and in truth, it is just the camera. I can live without the other stuff I have, with the exception of my laptop perhaps, which keeps me connected to others.
 
Graelwyn said:
My problem is, the mania with me, rather than being a high, tends to be the irritation/rage kind, thus more difficult. I get more lows to be honest. Was in hospital Friday night as a result, and the woman who spoke to me has referred me back to the team I had lost contact with. She suggested a mood stabiliser rather than anti psychotics... I am dead against anti psychotics, just the name brings up a massive stigma and images of hysterical, out of control people...though I suppose bipolar at it's worst can make one that way.
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You just need to find a way of channeling all the energy during a manic phase :) Preferably alone. It is really irritating when people around you can't understand why you're acting a bit odd or, in some cases, when you feel you're thinking rationally and everyone else is acting weird lol.

Photography is a lifeline. The perfect way to just go out alone and focus on something creative.

You'll learn to enjoy the mania and come to miss it if it's too heavily controlled by drugs. Especially as you're the opposite of me, I have more highs than lows.

Have a search on youtube for 'The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive', it really helped me understand the condition better :)

Good luck with the treatment :)
 
if you pm me bank details (bank transfer) or paypal email address i will donate £20.00 towards the final cost of the camera. or i can send you a cheque by post if you send me address or if thats not ok i can send the cheque to one of the admin people if thats ok with them.(perhaps they will pass it on) i understand you dont know me.
 
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Trex450 said:
if you pm me bank details (bank transfer) or paypal email address i will donate £20.00 towards the final cost of the camera. or i can send you a cheque by post if you send me address or if thats not ok i can send the cheque to one of the admin people if thats ok with them.(perhaps they will pass it on) i understand you dont know me.
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Thanks muchly, I have sent a pm...not sure how to react to the kindness shown, was not expecting it, especially given I did a rather stupid thing in the first place in my impulsive actions. Thankyou all.
 
2blue4u said:
that's a sad tale.

Contact, by phone, not only the pub but also any local shop, the local post office and the local plod. This is the Isle of Wight and, with apologies to anyone from there, they do live in another age. It is quite possible that your kit was handed in.
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It also gets infested with some scummy criminals who want to take advantage of situations like this.

Don't forget there is a population increase of around 33% this time of year..... the criminal scumbags love it! I lived there for the first 38 years of my life.

I was once told by a Police Officer that The Island at one stage (mid-80's) had the highest crime rate per capita than the rest of the UK. I can believe it! I bought 12 Thuja Placata juvenile plants, planted 9 of them..... 3 were stolen (out of the ground) because the scumbag saw I had 3 left unplanted... :bat:
 
Well, that killed that thread :(
 
Eh, I had half hoped the IOW would be a place where it would be more likely for the camera to be handed in, what with the number of elderly people there etc, but evidently I was wrong. Still half hoping. I once left my purse on a London bus and that ended up still being sat on the seat I had left it on.
 
Lucky it wasn't blown up! I have spent quite a bit of time on the IOW over the years. Lots of undesireables seem to gravitate to it during the summer months. Beautiful place though.
 
Yes, I fell in love with the island when I lived there with my ex for 5 and a half years. I went back there as I wanted to show it to my new partner, plus to try and replace some bad memories with good...didn't quite work so planning to try again at a later date. I am determined to show him the island and make it a good day next time, lol. Had choice, it is where I would eventually live, I think. That or Cornwall.
 
Very disappointed to be honest!

Sent the lens as stated (by recorded delivery), but no thanks or even acknowledgment of receipt!
 
Offered a tripod. Had a reply saying yes please then nothing.
 
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I had a close shave once, it nearly cost me my job.

Went out after work on a Friday with work colleagues, all expenses were paid for and this is always a problem with me, I can never really limit myself if the drink is free and I don't have work the next day, so i drank to excess.

Anyway I was steaming drunk in a club and thought it was time to leave. Expecting it to be about 11pm I checked my phone and then realised it was 2am. Didn't understand where the time had gone so I panicked and decided I had to leave then. I got my laptop and made my way to Liverpool St station. Obviously it was closed but decided I would try a cab from there to home, should be about £40. Well they all wanted twice that, probably on account of how late it was and how drunk I was, so I told them where to stick it. I went and got something to eat in the cafe and decided I would wait around till the first trains in the morning. I sat on a bench outside the station and I felt very tired so decided to lay down on it and uses the laptop case as a cushion. I seem to recall waking up and noticed the station was opened for services and cleaning etc. Next thing is I remember getting woken up in the station by security and asked to leave, this was about 4:30am. So I got up and checked my pockets, and had the wallet and phone and I stumbled slowly on my way. But I felt empty and knew something was missing. I clocked that it was my laptop, and I left it on the bench outside. I really did shat myself and was thinking 'no, no, NO!'. I knew this would be the end of my job as I hadn't backed documents off of it for a long time. So I ran outside and found it still on the bench. I was so relieved. I just don't understand how the bag wasn't taken in that area considering it was left for about 2 hours. It quickly put things in perspective.
 
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OK, so I may be being cynical, but how does anyone this person is genuine? There's been mention of scammers on ebay, but this could also be a scam.. getting sent a lens, a cheque and being offered a tripod for nothing..
Apologies if it's all true, just seems a tad odd. And yes I do have experience of bipolar disorder and depression.
 
30psi that is well lucky, i thought the security would have moved the bag if they see it.
 
ConfusedChicca said:
OK, so I may be being cynical, but how does anyone this person is genuine? There's been mention of scammers on ebay, but this could also be a scam.. getting sent a lens, a cheque and being offered a tripod for nothing..
Apologies if it's all true, just seems a tad odd. And yes I do have experience of bipolar disorder and depression.
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I've met her - she is legit. I purchased something off ebay for her - no problems. Probably just out of communication for a while.
 
Merlin said:
A word of advice from a fellow manic :) Don't let the dr bully you in to higher doses than you need. The anti psychs, I'm on chlorpromazine, really stifle your creative side to the point you don't get passionate about anything.
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I agree. I have a milder form of Bi-polar called Cyclothalmia.

My mood stablizers are an epilepsy drug.. too high and you lose interest in the world but at least you don't scream and tear your hair out.
Too low and they dont work. It takes a long time to even out which dose really works for you... so dont lose heart. Its taken a year on these till I THINK I feel better. Im also on Citalopram.

My family are certainly not suffering as much... I would go wild with them.. completely irrational, tears pouring out, shouting one thing, then the opposite till I almost didnt know where I was. My mania wasnt a nice high... it was this type of thing... anger. Of course my teenage sons have no respect at all for me now.. having seen me behave like that. :(

Graelwyn, Sorry about your camera loss, glad its all sorted... and give the medication TIME!!

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Well...

First off I have to say that`s a really sad story...

I just hate to lose things, especially something like my camera. (Once left my mobile outside on a pub table all night but it was there in the morning).

Feel really sorry for you Graelwyn... :(

Having read through the whole thread from start to finish two things came to mind.

First is that there are some REAL scumbags out there, I know of someone who had their camera literaly cut off their shoulder on a busy train in Portugal...

Went on the train with the camera, felt NOTHING... only realised it was gone when he was left with a very light camera strap on his shoulder... :(

The other thing that touched me was the kindness shown by several of you here.

Offering money, lenses, tripods etc... just shows there are still some good uns out there.

Well done lads :)

I would like to think that after so much kindness has been shown that a few thank you`s would be coming your way lads and I`m sure you`ll hear...

All the best Graelwyn. Hope it all comes good for you. :)
 
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There are some nice people on these forums, well done to them. Graelwyn is on the forums you can tell from the Statistics on her profile. But hasnt posted.
I am sure the people who gave will be thanked soon.
 
sparky666 said:
There are some nice people on these forums, well done to them. Graelwyn is on the forums you can tell from the Statistics on her profile. But hasnt posted.
I am sure the people who gave will be thanked soon.
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i would hope so.:thumbs:
 
i've looked through this thread, and its great to see people rallying to help someone in a predicament. That is very gratifying to see.

HOWEVER

It is a shame to see the lady in question fail completely to thank those people publicly. Maybe i will have a tantrum and leave my expensive equipment laying around somewhere, im sure i wont get the same responce though, as my friends will call me an idiot, and my parents probably ground me.
 
No public thank you,nothing,nil.

I think you have all had your trousers taken down i`m afraid to say.............
 
Did anyone receive a private thank you? I had a PM to say she would like the tripod and would arrange to get it to her. Had no reply so luckily didn't part with anything.
 
I made a small gesture some weeks ago and had some very grateful and sincere email correspondence from her. I am personally satisfied that she is quite genuine and suspect that, for one reason or other, her circumstances may be difficult. I know it's aggravating for people not to get a response but please don't be too harsh or too quick to judge. Just my humble.

Flashy
 
Whilst I can accept that Flash, the kindness, understanding, generosity and support, from a lot of people on this thread, is deserving of a sign of appreciation. There can be no excuses for such an act not to have been registered on this thread by the OP.

Just my opinion and final post on the subject.

Regards.
 
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