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Unknown user | Member | Last message 7 years ago

BPD - Free family connections class

Family Connections® is a free, 12-week course that meets weekly for two hours to provide education, skills training, and support for people who are in a relationship with someone who has BPD.Family Connections is coordinated by the National Education Alli

Friends, families and carersCreated 9 years ago

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Shaz51 | Senior Contributor | Last message 7 years ago

When caring for parents

Continuing from out topic tuesday last night we are talking about caring for parents with mental health challenges, and some of the experiences that arise when the roles are flipped; especially as an adult child of someone with a complex menta

Friends, families and carersCreated 7 years ago

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Rockpool1 | New Contributor | Last message 7 years ago

Keeping the family going with a struggling partner.

Just looking for advice: My husband has anxiety and is in a 2 week depressive episode. It's tough going because we're on school holidays and I have 3 kids, 2 with anxiety and ADHD (13 & 😎 and 1 with GAD (11) and we've all been walking on egg she

Friends, families and carersCreated 7 years ago

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Tiolinda1 | New Contributor | Last message 7 years ago

Hi I am new and need advice for mum

Hi everyone, i sm a 45 year old lady, working, married with two little girls. We are in Melbourne. what brings me here is that my father died in September at the age of 84. He had a lot of illnesses, in particular a weak heart after sev

Friends, families and carersCreated 7 years ago

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sbmc | Contributor | Last message 7 years ago

Limiting Contact with my Mum

Question: How have people here let their loved one with MI know that they can’t continue a personal relationship with them with the utmost attempts at compassion for them, despite the obvious hurt it will cause them? Background (this is long, I don’t

Friends, families and carersCreated 7 years ago

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JS1 | New Contributor | Last message 7 years ago

Coping with my sisters mental illness

Hi everyone, I’m new to the forum, I thought I’d try something different. I’ve been struggling to cope with managing my sisters mental illness. She has no formal diagnosis, however has experienced 4 severe psychotic episodes requiring hospitalisati

Friends, families and carersCreated 7 years ago

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