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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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BAO2 weeks 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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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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Alicent | Casual Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

Feeling like Imploding from Burnout

Just finished work at 6pm and just wanted to tell someone other than family or friends about how I feel right now about work. I feel like: I’m disassociating right now. That I’m going to implode or contemplate worse just to make it stop. My

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Helpmeheal | Senior Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

Psychiatrists making you feel small.

I just wanted to vent after seeing a psychiatrist. I have had so many bad experiences with them! This one treated me like a walking disease, not a human being. She changed up my meds and when I told her I was frightened, she just told me to read the

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Victoria82 | Casual Contributor | Last message 3 years ago

Overwhelmed

Lately, I’ve been getting pretty overwhelmed with my new job. I don’t sleep well throughout the week. Most mornings I’m only able to function by drinking copious amounts of tea. I find this gives me some form of energy/buzz that I need to face the day. Wh

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SANE-Admin | Administrator | Last message 4 years ago

Can you get Centrelink if you haven’t done tax in ages?

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ExhaustedCarer | Senior Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

Can you get Centrelink if you haven’t done tax in ages?

So, family member I support is bad at paperwork but so am I! It’s the bad at paperwork/ life admin leading the bad at paperwork/life admin. All I know is that I desperately need to help family member to get the pension. Her medication bill is (if I worked

Friends, families and carersCreated 4 years ago

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florencefifty | Senior Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

A tad terrified.

I went to work today. I ended up replying to my manager's e-mail. I said that I didn't find that part of the criticism to be in any way constructive. She didn't reply, or really mention it. She congratulated me for improving in one of my stats, but otherw

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Jay06 | Casual Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

I can't cope with ptsd

It's 30 years this year since I saw my mothers body dead on the road. I still having very bad nightmare as it has never been dealt with and now withdrawal from family. To the point of separation from my recent partner as I pushed her so far away and I nee

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Max33 | Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

Loneliness

I was listening to ABC RN live radio this morning about how difficult it can be for young people to make friends. The same is for old people, in fact, I think it is harder as you get older. They talked about shallow conversations and deep conversati

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JB73 | New Contributor | Last message 4 years ago

How can we support our 19 yr old son with psychosis?

Hi Our 19 yr old son has been diagnosed with psychosis - 4 months ago. He initially engaged with the psychosis clinic. He did not want us attending the appointments and the Dr's were unable to provide us with the actual diagnosis etc unless our son

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