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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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BAO5 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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NikNik | Senior Contributor | Last message 11 years ago

Need more support for spouses who live with bipolar partner but who are not in crisis

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Events and updatesCreated 11 years ago

Sukha14 | Casual Contributor | Last message 11 years ago

Need more support for spouses who live with bipolar partner but who are not in crisis

After being married for 20 years to a man I just thought was eccentric and getting to a point where I thought often about how I could leave the relationship my husband was diagnosed with bipolar after a terrifying (for me) psychotic episode. Finally we fo

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Francis | Contributor | Last message 11 years ago

What next please?

Hi there.My son is 23 and i am not actually sure of his diagnosis. Past history is ptsd and severe anxiety from serious accident and legal consequences of accident at 18 years old. At 21 began heavy marihijuana use followed by first episode psychosis 2 ye

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lobotoman | Contributor | Last message 11 years ago

my mother had some kind of depression where...

... She said she needed to goto a fundamentalist church every week to cope from mental breakdown.They were Bible quoters , usually stuff involving hell from abortion is murder, etc.She was also very pushy that I make a lot of money from eg computer scienc

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ADLEY | Contributor | Last message 11 years ago

Suicidal partner

Am new to this..but seems a good place to vent..we've been together 15yrs. .2 1/2 yrs ago discover he has been hiding suicidal thoughts his whole life..GP prescribed pills which seemed to work but things went downhill til one night a year ago I got home t

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AlienBP2 | Senior Contributor | Last message 11 years ago

Stuffing up the planet... Now that's " mental"

T think we must be "all be mental" the way we abuse the planet and lack of regard for otherspecies ....and there's just too many people on this planet....so we will have to " bring in some sort of birth control to keep our human lpopulation under control.

Our storiesCreated 11 years ago

Alicia | Contributor | Last message 11 years ago

OCD and anti-psychotic medication

have you noticed an increase in serious OCD symptoms with an anti-psychotic medication?Does anyone have experience with someone going off this particular medication to try a newer one that may not have these side effects?

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Alicia | Contributor | Last message 11 years ago

OCD and Anti-psychotic medication

Does anyone else suffer serious OCD symptoms while taking anti-psychotic medication? What can be done! Coming off An anti-psychotic medication to try a new medication. What experiences have you had?

Something’s not rightCreated 11 years ago

Rainbow789 | Casual Contributor | Last message 11 years ago

Border Line Personally Disorder (BPD). I would love to connect with other people who have this diagnosis. 😇

I have just been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and it is the first time I have excepted that I have a mental illness and I have been suffering with this pretty much since I was a child and then into my teenage years it was horrific and I

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AirTrafficOne | Casual Contributor | Last message 11 years ago

The Title "MentalAs" is so inapprapriate

Why on earth does mental illness have to be treated in such a lighthearted and foolish way? Which 25 year old clueless marketing graduate thought up "mentalas"? "mental as" has been a derogatory term for many many years and is just inappropria

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