McRainy

Not to mention all the smiley, happy photos that people load up to make it look like they have such a perfect life.  "Look at us, we're on holiday, we're such a loving family", yeah try thinking that when you find out you're both cheating on each other!!!  #fakebook

Thanks @Mafiabob.
I seem to have something in both eyes now. 

I just did and cried. Love, Life & Unity. Love and support your fellow humans, help one another, be kind and don't worry.
D.C.F.C.

The Pope was making toast one morning when he noticed that one slice bore a perfect image of the face of Christ.
Overcome with emotion, he showed it to the Dalai Llama who said, I can’t believe it’s not Buddha. 

The Pope was making toast one morning when he noticed that one slice bore a perfect image of the face of Christ.
Overcome with emotion, he showed it to the Dalai Llama who said, I can’t believe it’s not Buddha. 

The Pope was making toast one morning when he noticed that one slice bore a perfect image of the face of Christ.
Overcome with emotion, he showed it to the Dalai Llama who said, I can’t believe it’s not Buddha. 

The Pope was making toast one morning when he noticed that one slice bore a perfect image of the face of Christ.
Overcome with emotion, he showed it to the Dalai Llama who said, I can’t believe it’s not Buddha. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42968278
Short but interesting piece from Billy Kee.  I wonder how many footballers struggle with anxiety?  I wonder if our own Vydra has had a few issues in the past given a few comments by Rowett about keeping him positive and confident.  Fans currently on Lawrence’s back (inside the ground) might wonder for a few moments whether there actions might not be helping the player.
l always read this thread. Had a few issues myself (fortunately) in the distant past. Don’t post my thoughts, but do always wish everyone well.

The Pope was making toast one morning when he noticed that one slice bore a perfect image of the face of Christ.
Overcome with emotion, he showed it to the Dalai Llama who said, I can’t believe it’s not Buddha. 

A horse is in the pub having a few drinks when spots a donkey in the corner, so he nips over to have a natter. The donkey asks "What did you do for a living?”  Horse says " I ran on the flat in the summer and over the jumps in the winter". The donkey says "I worked with the kids on blackpool beach". Then he asks "Did you win anything?” The horse says "Yeah, on the flat I won the Oaks, St. Leger and the Derby and over the jumps I won the Grand National and the Gold Cup”.
They arrange to meet at the donkey's house a week later. The donkey thinks, "I need to impress this guy he's done everything" , so he buys a big picture of a zebra and hangs it above the fireplace. The horse arrives and says "Lovely place you have here and who's that in the picture on the wall?” The donkey replies " That’s me when I played for Juventus!”

When he was on his uppers, Elvis Costello once swapped a tyre for a box of chocolates. That was a Goodyear for the Roses.

Humans are addictive by nature, just one of many ways to exploit that weakness.

By the same token anyone can kick a ball about. Is it not just another form of paying for entertainment, when all’s said and done? We might perceive a qualitative difference, but it’s just a different choice. 
Only playing devil’s advocate, I know nothing about it. 

What do you do if you come across a tiger in the jungle?
Apologise and wipe it off.

A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird’s chest.
After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, "I'm sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away."
 
The distressed woman wailed, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead," replied the vet.
 
"How can you be so sure?" she protested.. "I mean you haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something."
 
The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.
 
The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room. A few minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.
 
The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck."
 
The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman. The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "£150!” she cried, "£150 just to tell me my duck is dead!"
 
The vet shrugged, "I'm sorry. If you had just taken my word for it, the bill would have been £20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it's now £150."

Very, very late reply but thanks for this – she's got a meeting soon with her line manager (poor sod), so she'll be going in all gun's blazing. 

I was the same when I was off, Paul. I could go along for days at a time being fine, wondering why I was even off, but then a meeting, medical appointment, letter or seeing a kid from school, would bring on debilitating panic attacks. 
I think the thing to remember is that your nervous system has been overloaded and it takes time to recover sufficiently if you are going to go back into the same environment. The rule of thumb is that you need the same time in recovery as you had under stress. Even when you are feeling ok doing unrelated things, the threat of going back to the stressful situation can trigger a relapse.
Unfortunately for me, my school refused to implement the recommendations of occupational health, so I knew I was going to end up with the same problems again. They effectively kept me under the same conditions of stress for the year that I was off ‘recovering’, because every absence monitoring meeting was a threat of either losing my livelihood or being made ill. Eventually, for my own sanity, I had to stop going to the meetings and resign, which is why ACAS said I could have taken them for constructive dismissal if I’d been able to afford to go to a tribunal. 
The analogy with a broken leg holds pretty true. It takes a given time to mend and if you put pressure on it too soon it’s going to go again or not heal properly. 

More than half of teachers have been diagnosed with mental health issues:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-teachers-mental-health-diagnose-issues-targets-education-school-pupils-exams-a8174101.html

Even if it’s unintentional her approach is still having a negative affect on your gf’s working life, which can’t be good for the school either. You'd hope that a good Head would at least offer guidance to the HoD and reassurance and support to your partner. As others have said, it’s stressful enough without having someone on your back all the time.
Having been part of a department that went from being close knit, positive and supportive to a majority being ill and/or leaving within the space of a year, I’ve seen the impact a poor HoD can have. I really hope it gets sorted for her. 

If only!
I wish I could forget what I just read four seconds ago then I could get my hopes up approximately twelve times a minute. 

Not our fault you have the attention span of Dori is it? ?

It keeps drawing my eye away from what I’m trying to read, then I get halfway through seeing what it says only for it to skip randomly to the beginning, then I read it again and finally get to the end only to realise I’ve read it fourteen times already and am none the wiser. 

Realist.
I know it's known as pulling it off, but there's no need to take it so literally.
Tears are not necessarily a sign of joy!

Still looks ill to me.