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Hi everyone! I'm very overwhelmed at the moment so I hope this post makes sense! I hope my post doesn't come across as complaining about helping my family, I'm really happy to support them, just not sure how to do all the things that need doing! A
Hey guys, My brother has been suffering with symptoms akin with paranoid schizophrenia for about 6 years but it has become worse over the last year. He has never been diagnosed and refuses to believe that there is something wrong with him. Part of his del
hello all and first, @Powderfinger sorry I had you worried. Your chairs are AMAZING and I'm keen to hear more about your new friend with the tools. As well as not going to the office I also took a fairly substantial "computer break" and I
hi , I've been with my partner for 11 years and in that time he has had many relapses however he just went three years without one until now ....I'm tired , I sit with him every day and listen to waffle , I take him snacks and tobacco , but what I am stru
My son (14) has locked himself in his room again. Been 36 hours since I last saw him eat. He won't respond to texts, calls, talking through the door. I had to force my way in (he had the bed against the door) to do a welfare check. He's okay and safe, but
Hi everyone. I'm new here. Wondering if anyone else here is a consumer and a carer, like me. I find it hard to manage the stress and one of the things i do is overeat. Just wondering if it might be good to have a thread talking about this issue as I'm sur
Hi everyone, I haven't been coping too well the last few weeks and needed to share...(my 31 yr old son is a diagnosed schizophrenic),I took him shopping last Thursday and he was clearly affected by ice. The day before, he called me in a panic and said tha
So recently my fiancé suggested a threesome with his best friend to which both the best friend and I shut it down and said it is something we needed to talk about and that we couldn't just rush into it. After about a month of my fiancé and I fighting on a
Hi, i am new to this site and I joined because Im at a loss as to how help my boyfriend who has paranoid schizophrenia and refuses to acknowledge it...i can see him going downhill month by month as he is currently unmedicated and untreated for his conditi
Okay so what happens after things calm down? Im confused as to what to think or feel when my husband is in his “normal person’ phase? Normally he is an awesome man but when he is schizophrenic and or on the bipolar slide he is just so awful.&
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