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4 weeks ago
Unhelpful/helpful things that people say and do
This is a 2 part question.1. What are some unhelpful things people wither say or do to you?2. What do you find helps? What do you WISH people could say or fo for you. Im hoping people with friends and family with MI see this and take note...ill answer in
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Difficult to communicate
Have started recently with a new counseller/therapist and finding it difficult feeling my way with communicatingmy feelings of loss over past years. Loss of loved friends,partner/husband and my general physical health.This has led to anxiety and depressio
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Maintaining a gealthy weight
Who here is able to maintain a healthy weight on antidepressants? And how? Im feeling very unmotivated and feel hungry ALL THE TIME. Any advice appreciated. .
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Highly functional, highly distressed
Does anyone else live with this?I study at uni part time, I work two jobs part time and am very successful at both and at the same time live with dissociation and manic and psychotic like symptoms. I have extraordinary amounts of energy at the moment and
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Balding
Hello all, Just sharing a downpoint, this is more to myself than anything. Decided to shave my head again after spending an hour+ checking it in the mirror, my hair was thinning around the crown to the point where if I parted my hair a certain way I had a
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Borderline personality disorder
,y 21 yo daughter was diagnosed with bpd 3 yrs ago and also major depression but she had been suffering since I would say the age of 14. I am a th stage where I feel I enable her to be this way we cannot even have a conversation, if I ask for something to
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Our experience & stories
Have been back to see my GP regarding current meds and finding it hard to keep my weight at astable level. Throughout most of my life I have not had a weight problem. I do now. Can anyone elserelate to this situation as it is a physical as well as an emot
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Getting things off my chest and looking for opinions
I have decided to write here because my life is on the verge of ruin and I have trouble talking to anyone let alone medical professionals about this sort of stuff. I suffer from severe depression and anxiety, especially social anxiety. It takes me years t
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Extended Leave
Argh! I'm so pissed!I found out today that I wasn't discharged from the hospital, simply released to the community but still under the mental health act... Yeah, I'm still committed. If I refuse my meds, I'm gonna be taken to the hospital again. The reaso
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Music soothes the savage beast.
Hey all,I am relatively new to the forum (long time lurker). I don't know abut anyone else but music for me is the most fundamental aspect of maintaining my mental health. I have spent a lot of money on headphones, headphone amplifiers, stereo's, portable
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