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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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Taalilast month

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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Volterra | Casual Contributor | Last message 3 years ago

Schizoid inward-lookingness

Hi,I've been a shy bloke since 15 or so, and experienced social anxiety in university to a high level. I used to get a feeling of 'invisible cobwebs' on my nose and facial cheeks, which evolved into a feeling of my face's skin crawling when I made ey

Something’s not rightCreated 4 years ago

justanotherguy | Senior Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

Armchair experts

There seem to be no end to armchair experts happy to tell people to run off to the psychiatrist or get some medication with no training in metal illness whatsovever. This is the sort of thing that leads to recurring mental problems because instead of taki

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justanotherguy | Senior Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

Cumulative or delayed trauma - are there such things?

I just commented on another post, is there such a thing as delayed or cumulative trauma? Cumulative trauma would be just small traumas built up over time, whereas delayed trauma might be due to emotinal manipulation or gaslighting. I can see a lot of my p

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Teag | New Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

History of paranoia

Hi all, My husband has a history of paranoia (intrusive thoughts) about me. To be clear it's not a controlling domestic issue - there is not physicality or intimidation involved. They are more like short arguments which tend go away. What I want

Friends, families and carersCreated 4 years ago

ClockFace | Senior Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

Mum

Im currently looking after my sister while she is in hospital for past few months. She bounced between a few hospitals general and mental. She is now in a mental facility but release date is tomorrow and I will be looking after her at home. She is self ha

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elpossum | Casual Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

Grief/shock and struggling

I unexpectedly lost a friend and colleague yesterday, but today I had to be there today to support everyone else, informing people of the death, and being there for people to process it. But I'm struggling, it's increasing my thoughts about dying. Then I

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justanotherguy | Senior Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

Is this being paranoid?

Just putting it out there, I had a new neighbour move in in January who I have met before. I was talking to him about living in our units and he was pretty adamant about not letting the real estate agent take photos inside his unit for inspections which s

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Hokeypokey | Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

Looking for support/clarity/to vent

Hey guys I suck at forums, and talking to stranger, so if my post feels quaint then that’s probably why I’m having tonight something I like to call a “druggo night”. Druggo nights are a term I use to describe a phenomena where I get fed up of lo

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Loz_3647 | Senior Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

Broken

I feel like I'm mentally broken tonight....really struggling

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abalone123 | Casual Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

Depression

Suffering so much and would love to talk to some positive stories of persons whom have lived through such experience of depression

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