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WinterSun | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

I'm sorry...

That community health can't help you.I'm sorry that you can't get a case worker though you have got 6 jobs the past year and lost them from being put off or too unwell to start.I'm sorry you are stuck between the private and public system.I'm sorry the pr

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NikNik | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

Community Guide Program - Looking for volunteers.

Hi everyone, You may have seen around the place, some members of our community that has 'Community Guides' under their usernames. This is a wonderful group of community champions who have volunteered to help create a welcoming and supportive communit

Events and updatesCreated 9 years ago

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Debbys | New Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

Anxiety and Jealousy/Suspicion

Hi I am new to this forum. I have recently retired and moving to Fiji with my husband to live for 3 yrs - he has a job there. We have lived there previously for 1 year. Really love the life there, but I do feel anxious about moving back. Have

Our storiesCreated 9 years ago

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Surfa2 | New Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

cruising on the surface but beneath the surface ???

Hi my first time to post i've really found comfort reading through some of the stories in this forum, so thank you i am a business owner with 10 staff. I have 3 small kids. My wife is wrestling with the aftermath of a car accident earlier this year.

Something’s not rightCreated 9 years ago

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Bunniekins | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

Hi everyone! This is a little bit about me :)

I have Bipolar1 and Schizoaffective Disorder. Have been recently diagnosed but have had Post and Pre natal depression in the past and depression when I was a teenager so yes ... mental illness has always been lurking in the background. As I write th

Our storiesCreated 9 years ago

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theos | Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

carer needing advice

Hi,Am a volunteer carer for a woman for the past 16 years and also a carer for another woman for the past 9 years which is still ongoing for both and has been a very hard road to navigate all these years but have seemed to manage until the last few months

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Gypsy7 | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

Drop in mood

Trying to tell myself it's everything that's been going on . Despair and suicide thoughts plague me when awake I slept today which is rare for me. Exhausted mentally hurt by last few months One thing after another. Alone now in home so doesn't matter to a

Something’s not rightCreated 9 years ago

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DeeDee2 | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

Mental health

I am very new to Sane but I feel that this forum is essential to help older people who have something to say. I am now 65 and as I said before I was diagnosed with BPD at 55. For years I knew there was something a

Our storiesCreated 9 years ago

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dideoh | Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

so hard to keep positive

My daughter is 38 and attempted to take her life about 10 weeks ago. Since then it has been an ongoing saga of sadness. I had to call 000 a few weeks after that attempt and she was admitted to hospital again but released 2 days later. Now she refuses to t

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