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Consumers and carers expressions of interest to join the Community Collaboration Committee
Hello All,My name is Alexandra from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP).The RANZCP is responsible for training, educating and representing psychiatrists in Australia and New Zealand.Psychiatrists specialise in diagnosing
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Carers and Consumers expressions of interest
Hello All,My name is Alexandra from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP).The RANZCP is responsible for training, educating and representing psychiatrists in Australia and New Zealand.Psychiatrists specialise in diagnosing
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Thriving Article about Bi Polar Leaves me feeling glad (and useless)
I read a great article by Melody Moezzi about living with Bi Polar, it is so rare to find positive articles from people who identify as living with mental illness, even rarer to find one so positive and self-affirming.As I read it I was cheering
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Psychiatric care in health insurance
Like a lot of people, my old man has gotten riled up recently about the rising cost of health insurance. So I spent most of yesterday morning helping him navigate the internet in search of better providers and all the various forms of coverage out th
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self harm
hi, seeking some guidance... i have been a self harmer for about 17yrs on and off. Its been a couple of years since last time. im having urge to do it again, memories of past trauma have been haunting me, i have so much energy in me that i meed to release
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Isolated with lack of services available for daughter labeled with Bpd
We live in a 200 km from a regeonal town and 16 hours to Brisbane.Daughter was labeled with Bpd 12 months ago and will be 20 this year.She was prescribed medication which went well at first ; then she decided it wasn't helping so she stopped taking it.She
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Home visit
So I have just brought my partner home from hospital for the day as we did this last night and the normality was good for him but unfortunately he hadn't slept all night and is obviously still very unwell. He has accused my daughter of stealing from our a
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I need support this week big time!
As many of you knoe I have SH issues and I've been hiding it for quite some time. My husband felt the scars this morning so now he knows. He doesn't know the full extent though.His initial reaction was amazing and so caring. But I feel incredibly anxious.
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My aunty is worrying me.
I dont speak to my aunty as she's always caused trouble. I suspect she's has always had some type of mental illness. She uses drugs I think back in the day it was more hardcore stuff but these days mostly pill and weed. I couldn't say what exactly. She is
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Tired of visiting my partner in hospital daily but feel guilty if I don't????
as I have posted in here many times of late you are probably quite familiar with my situation. But in a nutshell my partner of 6 years has schizoeffective disorder and was recently hospitalised for the third time in the last six years. As we were able to
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