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Struggling with what life is throwing at me
Hi, basically my title says it all. I suffer from BPD, bipolar, CPTSD, plus the usual side effects that go hand in hand with these diagnoses, depression, anxiety etc etc. I’ve struggled for a long time now with suicide ideation and have had ma
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Major Tom to Moongal
Hi Moongal.You probably don’t remember me, I was on here about 4-5 years ago, I had a thread where I posted some pretty bad poetry...Anyway, just before I left, you made some comments to me, that got kept when i made a copy of my thread.I clipped them out
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Loving-kindness meditation (Metta or Maitri)
Loving-kindness meditation, known as Metta in Pali and Maitri in Sanskrit, is an important form of meditation in Buddhism. It has several scientifically-studied benefits, such as an increase in self-compassion and compassion for others, usefulness f
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Just can’t dig myself out of the hole I am in
I just need to vent and get this all out... I am not looking for a magic fix... I just need to get it out Why oh why is it so hard to bounce back as many know... just over a week ago I resigned from a job I had had most of my life.... I couldn't
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Help us make the Forums even better
Hi everyone, It’s that time of year – time for our annual review of the SANE Forums! Whether you're a member or just visiting you’re exactly who we want to hear from about your experiences here in the Forums. So tell us what you think, and h
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𝚃𝚛𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚍 a 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚋𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚑𝚞𝚜𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚙𝚜𝚎𝚍.
I feel like I'm running out of help to give. My husband was diagnosed with bipolar 10 years ago after a mental health hospital admission. He's since been mostly stable on meds until about 2 months ago he declined badly. Became suicidal, had a very we
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My bipolar wife is emotionally breaking me
Hi everyone, I signed up because I dont know what to do. My wife has been diagnosed with bipolar, and every day is emotionally devastating for our family (including 2 young toddlers). My wife is acting out of frustration and anger, often over thing
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Always need to be doing something
Hey I'm terrible at sitting still, I have to be engaged with a task and it seems it needs to intellectually stimulating, this doesn't mean it can't be something like a TV show or music, but I can't sit still and just do nothing otherwise I find
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Self-compassion – how to put it into practice
This article was written by one of our SANE Forum Moderators - @Former-Member You’ve probably heard the phrase “be kind to yourself.” Perhaps when you were going through a tough time or someone heard you being especially hard on yoursel
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Taking the long way around
My friends from Uni, got their nursing jobs, moved into houses, in the same postcodes where their parent’s lived. But I, I could never follow. No I, I could never follow. I hit the highway, in a blue Mazda with a GPS, lived like a nurse. Two st
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