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Hi My Husband are self- employed , and my husband has major DepressionToday we were out mowing some lawns when suddenly My Husband froze and could not go on , he want to quit , we sat under a tree for a little while and had morning tea , I thought this mi
Posted here before. I am totally exhausted, just gone through another torrid episode with our 31 year old son. Think he has BPD but this is the GP's diagnosis. He has been looking for work and getting knock backs so feels bad. So he dumps it on us. Have j
Hi everyone, first time poster looking for support and love in all the right places (I hope).My husband and I have been together for 18 years. It has only just become blatantly apparent that he is suffering a mental illness. As I type, I wonder how it has
My son has struggled for a while finding joy in anything. Three months ago he stopped going to work altogether. I got him to go to the Dr who prescribed antidepressants which he stopped taking after three weeks as he said they didn't work. He won't see a
Hello all.My mum has been suffering with generalised anxiety and panic disorder for over 2 years now (officially) and may have bipolar, the professionals cant make their mind up with this one.She has been to the Perth Clinic and had the intense treatment
It is hard to find or even know the right level of self care & care of others. Always working at it - seems a perennial problem for me. Easy for me to collapse into fear and worse case scenarios, When I joined the forum there had been 3 premature deat
My brother, who is in his late 40's, has suffered from mental illness for many years. He has hidden a lot of his life from his family, but recently revealed that he was abused as a child...and that many of his struggles later in life result from this
As a person who grew up without boundaries I am realising how natural it is that establishing boundaries is not my forte. I probably perservered with building connection for far too long.What do people think of this simple difference betwee
HiI have just signed up here I had a read of some othsr posts and i may be a different type of carer than a lot of you but let's give this a tryI am a foster carer, well I used to be. my husband and I found it to be a challenging experience but it was rew
So I have this problem... My relative(old, sweet woman) has been having her issues. And I try to be supportive by listening and letting her talk(she is usually the one to listen and nod when other people come to her, so she has to have her time). But she
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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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