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Does anyone like to keep a journal? Do you find that it is helpful? I have been struggling with negative thoughts about myself lately and having regular vivid dreams (sometimes upsetting, sometimes just very random!). I would like to try something pr
This is a discussion forum for anyone who has Schizoaffective disorder but who is also a carer for someone who has any other mental illness. I just would like to learn from my fellow journeyers on a long road.
My son is in his mid twenties. He has become delusional & paranoid. He smokes a lot of weed. His diet is very poor & only eats protien foods & very little carbs. He is quite obsessive about his diet. He used to be very conscious about looking
Hi everyone, im struggling a fair bit with lockdown. we are up to week 8 and we still have at least 4 weeks to go yet but the trouble is the person i look after has dementia. he doesnt get it so i alway have to repeat myself so many times a day, hes alway
My 49 year-old son, diagnosed with schizophrenia in his late teens and then dual diagnosis, has had a very up and down life, with many psychiatric unit admissions. He lives at home with me (his mother), and we are both content with this arrangement.
I have a 24 year old son who still lives with us. I do not know what else to do to help him. He moved out 2 years ago but then eventually got broke and nowhere else to go, that's why I took him back in our house, hoping that he would learn his lesson and
Problem is - we have 5 y.o. daughter and my wife "has a history of becoming aggressive toward her family when unwell", we even have a "safety plan" for our daugter with SOCIT team. But since I'm not there and not allowed to even contact my daughter
Hi all, I am new to this forum. My daughter is currently under an assessment/treatment order in a public hospital. She has been in a private facility for six weeks and as she continued to deterioate they where telling her to "snap out of it" and "yo
After struggling with treatment resistant depression for the past 4 years, my 23yo daughter ended up on life support in ICU 2 weeks ago after (her first) suicide attempt. This is an event I'd predicted and I've lived in constant dread, worrying ... not ab
Hey there,my mum has been extremely depressed for a while now and talks to me everyday about suicide. she's on antidepressants and they don't seem to be working. i'm trying to get her out of the house everyday, we walk to get coffee. it doesn't seem to do
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Help us push aside the stigma and discrimination surrounding complex mental health and change the way people talk about, and care for, mental illness.
SANE acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.
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