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Shaz517 years ago

GRATITUDE

What are you Grateful for ????Gratitudeis mindset, a way of life with endless benefits for you and those around youit is such a simple habit that can spark the most incredible postive outcomes.by embracing and expressing gratitude and letting it guild you

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CheerBear8 years ago

Thumbs up Thursday - Woohoo!

Here on the forum there is so much to celebrate! Every day people are overcoming challenges, working at goals and taking steps forward.This space has been created as a place to recognise these achievements, both of others and also for us to share our own.

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BAO2 weeks ago

Welcome New Members!

Welcome to this online mental health peer-to-peer space.It's great to have you join this community.You can start a discussion by clicking "Start new disucssion", or you can "Reply" to a post.Here is the link to our Community Guidelines to guide your posti

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littlemissme4 months ago

Upcoming Webinar // Navigating civvie healthcare with Dr Alex Labanov // Wednesday 11 November, 7-8pm

Leaving the ADF comes with a lot of change. Managing your own physical health and the healthcare system is often one of the most challenging parts to navigate.Without the structure of Defence, many veterans are left trying to piece together how the civili

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Taalilast month

Morning Greetings!

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Co-design & Researchlast month

Community consultation invitation - support for Queensland fathers with young children

We want to know how we can better support fathers with young childrenSANE has been funded by the Queensland Mental Health Commission to provide specialist support to Queensland fathers with young children. As part of our planning, we would like to speak w

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TomBombadil2 months ago

We’ve been listening to your feedback about moderation decisions on the Forums.

Updates to our Forum Guidelines: We’ve heard your feedback about how our Forum guidelines are interpreted and applied. As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, we’ve reviewed the guidelines to make them clearer and easier to understand.We also

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littlemissme3 months ago

Please help us welcome new members to our Grief and Loss space

Hi Forumites,We're excited to share that, as part of Griefline's merger with SANE, we've just launched a dedicated Grief and Loss space here on SANE Forums.We've also moved discussions relating to grief and loss into this new space, making it easier for p

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c-user19994 months ago

Community Guideline Update: One Account per Person

Hey Forums Community,We wanted to share an update to our Community Guidelines: From now on, each member is asked to hold one Forums account. Running multiple identities on our Forums is not permitted. Here is the link to our Community Guidelines.This upda

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Chasingsunsetslast year

What has been your highlight today, no matter how big or small? Come share 🫶

Hi everyone! This is my first ever forum post so do hope it lands where it’s meant to 🤣 Most days, I like to find a highlight 😊. Usually, that means during a walk with my dog, I try to spot something different, something cool or something that brings

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Shaz5110 months ago

Our Gardens

Hello @TeaPositive @Ramman @Rana8 , @Determined @wermonastring @lil_green_clock @Junee @EJ , @ks @JR489 @HappyEmu @ForestBat @Farwaa123 @Cheekychick158 @Fullofhope79

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NightFury10 months ago

The Creative Writing Corner

"There is no greater power on this earth, than story," Libby Bray Why hello there! I've been discussing with @Jynx and @AuntGlow the fact that I used to write a lot as a child - pages and pages of imagination, and wonderous s

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Jayneinpain | Senior Contributor | Last message 5 years ago

Handling rejection.

Rejection comes in many forms to most, if not all, of us. As a person who has direct personal experience with depression, life-limiting illness and suicide, I find I don't deal well with rejection. How do others cope? I recently left the town I had b

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saltandpepper | Senior Contributor | Last message 5 years ago

Weighted Blankets?

The cookie crumbs keep promoting these weighted blankets to me--like I have anxiety/stress related issues pfft.. I've been really struggling with sleep again lately averaging around 4 hours a night. And I periodically wrestle with PTSD related symptoms th

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Lokison | Contributor | Last message 6 years ago

FFS!!!!!

Words are failing me right now!! I am so disappointed... My daughter whom I have posted about in the past, has just sabotaged her treatments. We have been waiting months for an assessment at an OCD and anxiety clinic, the clinician mentioned how long and

Friends, families and carersCreated 6 years ago

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cvb81 | New Contributor | Last message 6 years ago

Borderline personality disorder

Hello. Never tried this before but just want to know if there is someone experiencing the same as me. I have been battling depression and anxiety most of my life but i've just recently been diagnose with borderline personality disorder. It's hard to

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BillyGoat | Contributor | Last message 6 years ago

Time for answers...

Gday all So, I've been doing this bipolar shit for about 30 years, 15 of them diagnosed. I've seen countless psychiatrists, psychologists and gp's about it. I was involved in a website that operated as a support site for people with BP for about

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DD5 | Contributor | Last message 5 years ago

Help but no help really

My husband has suffered from Bipolar for most his life. GP and all manner of specialists involved with therapy and medication however when he has a violent episode I am on my own. I call his Drs and they won't even take my call. Call Beyond Blue they say

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Ru-bee | Moderator | Last message 6 years ago

Help but no help really

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Welcome & getting startedCreated 6 years ago

Unknown user | Member | Last message 6 years ago

Belated Happy Mother's Day.

Being a mother is learning about strengths you never had and fears you never knew existed. I just wanted to send my love to all the mothers on the forum. I hope it's everything you imagined it would be. Mother's Day was pretty nice at my house.

Social spaceCreated 6 years ago

Dark_Olena | Senior Contributor | Last message 6 years ago

Negative and fearful

I can't keep doing this. It is wearing me down to nothing. All my life I have lived in 'survival mode' I just go from A straight to Z. I do not take the small calm steps. A being first problem/symptom/issue, to Z worse case scenario. It's maki

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greenspace | Senior Contributor | Last message 6 years ago

Becoming a carer while living with anxiety & depression

Hi everyone, hope you're going okay. CW: parent death, cancer I've been living with generalised anxiety and periods of major depression probably since childhood, but through my 20s, 30s, early 40s, I was working, seeing friends, stud

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