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3 weeks ago
BPD diagnosis being used by hospital to deny treatment.
Our 21 year old daughter is under normal circumstances a beautiful, kindly, intelligent and popular girl with no obvious problems. However since the age of 17 she has been subject to shortish psychotic episodes of the most extreme kind, the kind which in
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First post here, Worried about my Bipolar Mother.
Hi,I hope someone here knows about bipolar and can help me.How do you tell if someone with bipolar is in hypomania or just in a good mood?I ask because my mum seems quite happy at the moment and of course I start panicking that it means she is hypomanic w
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Disability Support People Whacked Again
Well the Government and Opposition have made their great big contribution to Mental Health Week. They have passed laws to make all people under 35 who qualified for the DSP between 2008 and 2011 get reassessed. This is to move as many people off the DSP a
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Need help, not sure what to do
I posted the other day about my husband with depression. Today he was very uptight after work and quite negative, saying everything he does breaks etc. he had a bad run around tea time where a few things went wrong (dropped a sauce bottle, cat hurt his ha
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Hey there - Looking for support
Hey everyone, my name is Hayley and Im glad that I found this page and fourm.. I am 25 years old and both of my parents have Schizophrenia, Its been an interesting life! My parents are divorced, but my mum did re marry and he also has schizophrenia,
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Caregiving Advice to Support a Loved One With Schizophrenia
For those on Twitter, this might be an interesting twitter chat to "attend". It's US based, so it's on at 9am AEST 8th of Oct (7pm 7th Oct US EST). This session is run by Everyday Health - a US based company. In honor of Mental Illness Awareness Wee
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Organic and Natural therepies
Hello.I am new to this forum.Was wandering if anyone could reccomend any natural or organic therepies to help with BiPolar Disorder. I feel prescribed medications are no longer suitable for my lifestyle.Any suggestions would be very helpful.
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Running out of steam
Hi - I've been with my husband for around 17 years, and he's been depressed since before I met him. We only figured out it was a clinical illness around 7 or 8 years ago, and he was extremely defensive about getting a diagnosis. He finally went to see a d
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Games and other hypnotic activities
I love computer games, but unsure where to post this....Do you have a favourite game? I enjoy the role playing genre, a left over from my very ill time. I am very much into " Skyrim" and the modifications one can graft onto the basic game. There is a lot
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How to support my partner?
I have been with my partner for 18months and she has been suffering from some form of mental illness for over 2 years. She shared this with me after seeing each other for a couple of months. Across our time together we have tried various modes of support,
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