Whether you think you have broken your leg or are waiting for an assessment of some sort you do funny things to pass time!
So far me and Oliver (frenchhorn) have:
Pulled funny faces
Attempted to tell William (Oliver's cute teddy) a story
Knitted
Used the NHS phone and electricity!
Ate there ok-ish snack box consisting of cheese and crackers, egg sandwich and a mango and apricot yogurt
AND made this thread!
So what things do you do to keep busy!
You see things. You understand. You're a wallflower.
I remember I had to go to A&E when I was in a therapeutic community once years back. Two other members came with me and started stealing - and wearing - things out of the cupboards in the little cubicle. You name it - rubber gloves, aprons, incontinence pants, they were all dressed up in them. It was mortifying.
Generally make fun of each other and just talk about stupid random things.
If there for mentals, joke about it, it's best to make light of a bad situation and can be quite funny.
Generally act like children, and it is always a good time for a catch up. Or a sleep.
The world is just illusion always trying to change me.
You will find wonder wherever you can, and spread joy whenever you are able.
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, divide within me. - Frankenstein.
I remember I had to go to A&E when I was in a therapeutic community once years back. Two other members came with me and started stealing - and wearing - things out of the cupboards in the little cubicle. You name it - rubber gloves, aprons, incontinence pants, they were all dressed up in them. It was mortifying.
Loled.
Like others have said generally make jokes especially if tis MH related, and often resort to the A-Z of bands and singers/films/whatever game when extremely bored.
'Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.'
['There is only one thing we say to death. Not today'.']
'We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. Oscar Wilde
Its hard to dance with the devil on your back. Sydney Carter
I tend to panic and fiddle with scarf/jacket/zip end.
But then I've only been to a and e a few times and both were connected with bad anxiety related to physical symptoms.
I was once hand cuffed to a wheelchair and I started to propel myself down the corridor really fast. That was fun. Especially when the officers with me had to leg it down the corridor after me!
I also asked them if they could arrest someone for wearing socks and sandals.
Its not A&E, but when I used to get put in the police cells, I would stick a cup to the wall and play basketball with a screwed up napkin.
I'm fine! Totally fine. I don't know why it's coming out all loud and squeaky, 'cause really, I'm fine!
Once in the waiting room, I tried to convince Jocelyn the tattoo on my wrist didn't exist and she was just hallucinating it. I asked some poor guy if it was there and he said no, I liked that man :)
Let us go then you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky, like a patient etherized upon a table
- T.S. Elliot
ummm....my most entertaining time was when my a-level archaeology teacher took me to a+e, I was doing my AS level at the time, and she had an A-level paper with her....so we passed the time with her testing me on an exam I wouldn't take for another year...it was fun.
"Has anyone seen my contact lens? It may be stuckto a tree or a rock or something. Oh boy, I am so grounded" Family Guy
if everyone cared and nobody cried, if everyone loved and nobody lied, if everyone shared and swallowed their pride, we'd see the day that nobody died
I've only been in A&E twice. Once when my brother was having his mentals and then he was non verbal so I chatted to the police staff who were waiting with us. They were lovely :) and we were seen fairly quickly anyway (so police could get back to work) and then when I broke my hand and was waiting 4 hours to be seen but I was in too much pain then to really do anything at all.
Play the "What's wrong with them" game, guess what's up with other people.
Read ALL the posters.
Learn how to sleep sitting upright.
Count the roof tiles.
Count the floor tiles.
Befriend anyone who is alone or looks distressed (use some caution obviously, not everyone is friendly)
Once played the "Look after the fitting person that the receptionist says isn't fitting because they have MH problems" game. I won that one.
luckily I haven't been to a and e in my life but when I'm sitting in a waitingroom I sometimes start to guess what job/family/home the other people there have.
You survived the abuse.
You're gonna survive the recovery.
I had an indepth discussion with a 3 year old about the crayon they had stuck up their nose whilst I was waiting to see someone about my knee a few years ago.