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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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BAO7 days 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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Taali4 weeks ago

Morning Greetings!

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Co-design & Research4 weeks ago

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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outlander | Senior Contributor | Last message 8 years ago

Today im proud of myself for.....

it's important to give ourselves a pat on the back sometimes for doing something scary or challenging or out of our comfort zone what are you proud of yourself for?

Social spaceCreated 9 years ago

Ash11 | Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

Anybody there?

Anybody up for chat? How are people feeling today?

Our storiesCreated 9 years ago

outlander | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

Turning negatives into positives

Sometimes it can be helpful to turn our thinking around and begin to challenge the way we look at things. Turning negatives into positives is a way of doing this! Basically, think of something that happened today, this week, this month or at some other ti

Recovery ClubCreated 9 years ago

Ash11 | Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

Confused and struggling

Hi all, Im struggling to get out of bed today. I've had a bad few days of self destructing, now trying to recover from the self inflicted trama i've put myself through. I feel lonely and afraid to talk to anyone at the same time. So I'm finding these foru

Our storiesCreated 9 years ago

FiniteEnergy | Casual Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

How to encourage spouse to get help? It's ruining my life

Hi everyone, First of all, thank you for your time and for the existence of this forum. One of the wonderful phone support staff made me aware of it and I hope one or more of you might be able to help me. In brief, I have been trying (and failing) for a c

Friends, families and carersCreated 9 years ago

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Sharonm | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

A new diagnosis...I think...

Very tough week with C. Has gone from performing well on his meds to crashing and back to considering hospitalisation...all because of a break up. At school yesterday threatened to harm himself, ended up curled up in the foetal position talking about how

Friends, families and carersCreated 9 years ago

Unknown user | Member | Last message 9 years ago

Mourning all the (little) bad things that happen

Today i found out my contract is not going to be renewed.I'm devestated. I really liked this job. I sucked at it, but I really liked it.I feel sick at the thought I'm back looking for jobs again. I cannot deal with that. And going back on centrelink. The

Something’s not rightCreated 9 years ago

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MyLilOne | Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

Carer fatigue... this mum feels like a shell

Definitely experiencing carers fatigue! ... and I just sat and read one of the info pages that sane.org has about it, giving advice on what to do to help yourself, and I thought "yeah, all that'd be awesome if I wasn't feeling so awful and had the energy

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Gemima | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

I'm losing it

As a mum of a 20 year old child with schizophrenia my heart aches. I see the pain and distant vague look in the eyes of my son.Who's thoughts are getting more and more messy in his head hit with more and more medication, and the doc saying that the medica

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Bast | Senior Contributor | Last message 9 years ago

just too hard

hi all I have been typing my little hert out to you all just to try and make things better. I know that it is just a simple battle with my mind. Today just took too much.I am just frozen, stuck and drowning again in my well.I really just want it all

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