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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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BAOlast week

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 & Researchlast month

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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Miss-wish | Senior Contributor | Last message 3 years ago

coping mechanisms

Hi everyone, My coping mechanism is humour, laughing always makes my family feel better after a bad day. When my kids seem a little down, I give a little roar and within seconds I have 2 little, big ROAR's back 😊When my 24yo was younger t

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Kal-el | New Contributor | Last message 3 years ago

Guilt

Hello anyone else struggle with guilt and shame

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ArraDreaming | Senior Contributor | Last message 3 years ago

RACV are dogs

Useless prices of god damn shit I hope they like the 56 emails the same content I just sent them because they are dogs, absolutely useless dogs. just took $130 out of my account put us into the negativeswe now have $0. And I mean $0 because thes

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chibam | Senior Contributor | Last message 3 years ago

Article About Side-Effects Of Antidepressants, esp. "Brain Zaps"

https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/other/maddy-felt-brain-zaps-after-stopping-antidepressants-no-one-told-her-they-were-a-common-symptom-of-withdrawal/ar-BB1hoHqY This came up in my news feed today. Thought it might be of interest to some in this commu

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Sharni-lea | Senior Contributor | Last message 3 years ago

Accepting the little offers or being bread crumbed and trauma bonded

I am so confused. My partner of 10 years moved out to get help so as to not hurt me anymore as she acknowldeges she needs help, yet has not accessed help yet, but has appointments scheduled. Over the 3 months of her leaving she has slowly distanced hersel

Friends, families and carersCreated 3 years ago

Acanthiza | Senior Contributor | Last message 3 years ago

Running out of steam again

I wrote a whole crazy thing out in the my story section but it wouldn't let me post it for some reason. Which is certainly for the best! Anyway I am running out of steam again, it is always frustrating feeling a lot of despair again. Feel like a liar tell

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tyme | Moderator | Last message 2 years ago

Welcome Peer Guides!

Dear Forumites, This week, you have the privilege of meeting some of our latest Peer Guides. You will see them around on the forums. Please say hi to them. SANE's Peer Guide Program is a program that consists of both an online training modul

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LostAngel | Senior Contributor | Last message 3 years ago

feeling burnt out ,wound up,but still needing to focus on the Journey

feeling burnt out and tense ,am still on the journey but just doing pretty average at the moment, like how can you be feeling tense emotionally yet physically lacking energy,like my brain is in overdrive but its like my brains fried from stress and tensio

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Hopefulsoul | Senior Contributor | Last message 3 years ago

Struggling to trust again after some more recent trauma

I've had a pretty traumatic background up until my early 20's and then met someone and he was amazing. Then burnt myself out with work and had an a mental and physical breakdown and we ended up divorcing. Since 2020 I have had a really bad time with

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1983 | New Contributor | Last message 3 years ago

Not Coping

I am the father of a young adult living with complex mental health challenges. They moved home a while ago and rather than improving, things seem to be getting worse. Their self care has deteriorated to the point that you can't even walk into their room b

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