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Hi there. I’ve spent six months searching for answers to solve this very tricky situation. I’ve known and loved my partner for a decade, fully aware he was newly single with two small children who spent most of their time with their mother. We had them at
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Hi @Marie30, it looks like you've posted a lot of questions about how to help someone who doesn't have insight into their illness in a section of the forum that is for people with their own lived experience of severe mental health issues. Hopefully
For a very long time, my older sister has had schizophrenia and only this year has she started to go back to her old habits of talking to herself, believing her halluciations and made up people in her reality, thinking she is 'pregnant' and about to get m
I’ve been worried about my brother who has been depressed for many years. He has self medicated with legal and illegal substances, alcohol, marijuana. He had been self prescribing for years. He has tried ending his life before. He was recently in a mental
Content/trigger warning (Highlight to read)Hi to all,My husband and I have been together for 10 years. I cheated my husband with many boys before we got engaged. I told my husband that I had many boys when we were in Gf bf relationship on the day we got e
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My 17yo has BPD & is medicated for ADHD & Depresdion.Has really escalated, resulting in breakup w BF after 18months.Now won't come home, staying out, self medicating w marijuana and Alcohol. Now, refusing to come home to take meds. Immediate
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My mother is in her early 70s and has anxiety about every little thing. She avoids dealing with issues regarding her aging and health and has a zillion reasons for not acting to address issues. She has started using this helpless little girl's tone of voi
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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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