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Learning | Contributor | Last message 5 years ago

Moving house

Moving house is crazy days. I was doing much better than previous moves and giving myself a big ole pat on the back until yesterday. Yesterday I was in the junk funk..so many things and so overwhelmed. I have a shitload of other stuff that needs addressin

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BambiFawn | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

All on my own

All on my own here. No family support and feeling isolated, Wah, ....my friends are in other cities.. Just need a friend here. Wah..

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Bunniekins | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

Grendel's mother

Hi all@outlander called me 'loveley' yesterday ... I said thank you as we are all taught to say when someone compliments you but I don't feel loveley in truth I feel like Grendel's mother.... and not the Angelina Jolie's version but the ancient hag-l

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utopia | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

Depression Sucks

I hate this Depression. I start getting better. I feel the Anti depressants working. Slowly.Then another week or two passes and I'm back in Depressions grip. Why? Why won't it go away and stay away? I've had 4 hospital stays this year alone due to m

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Scruffy | Casual Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

Bipolar episodes every 8 months

Hi everyone, I have been with my husband for 4 yrs now. 5 days ago he started to become very irrational and grumpy. He is not currently medicated professionally for his bipolar but is medicated for his depression. I am not sure what to do as the last 3 ti

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Maggie | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

LOST

I feel like I've been chained to the bottom of the darkest pit since before the umbilical cord was cut. There seems no point climbing out, as I'll fall straight back down. Small steps are too hard and days and nights just merge together in an endless stru

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outlander | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

what gives you hope?

often in our darkest times we dont think about the positives in life, or looking ahead at a future life and what that might look like, so when things get really tough and we are loosing the hope that things will change, or loosing the will to go on what i

Recovery ClubCreated 9 years ago

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Orphanim | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

World and Character building to express oneself: An anecdote!

I am a creative person and have been since I was young, though I only really started exploring it in my late teenage years. I've always enjoyed creating fictional worlds and characters to express myself, and even in the darkest depths of my depression (ro

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Ontilt1971 | Casual Contributor | Last message 8 years ago

Looking for some guidance

Hi All I'm new to this forum so let me know if this is not the correct place for this post. I was wondering if there were any support groups in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne for partners of depression/anxiety sufferers (apologise if my terminology is n

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