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Dear community, I'm looking for advice as well as company for any fellow carers in a similar situation. My mom has been battling schizophrenia for the last 15 years (diagnosed!), I'm sure she was in distress much before that. She was doing
Hi. I’m new here so please correct me if I write anything I’m not allowed to. My now 17yo started going really downhill end of 2021 and then it escalated from there. I knew she needed help and the amount of services I got linked to us was crazy but s
Hello all carers we had a great discussion last night on Topic Tuesday// Caring For The Carer// Tues 29th November 2022 7-8:30PM AEDT is for reading only now but starting this thread to continue from last night @Joonbug
my wife has been struggling with some health issues and is relying on me a lot especially for lift to her appointments. How do i look after myself? because i am feeling overwhelmed from how much she is relying on me.
The situation is a small NFP organisation’s committee that’s been going for a few years. Someone on the committee has become single-issued, emotional, illogical, repetitive, and lately using verbal aggression. This is completely out of character for them.
Its an interesting and difficult position to be both a person experiencing mental health issues and being a carer for one. I suffer from Bipolar 2 with psychotic features and I am caring for my sister who was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Dis
I hope this makes sense… my partner has been diagnosed with psychosis and has spent time in hospital and was in a community plan for support. However he is still experiencing acute psychotic episode and has drove to another state and is stating
Brains trust, I need your advice...Husband still in hospital, still won't speak to me and is apparently still hostile towards me.His brother (who is listed as next of kin at the hospital) has confirmed that he is still very angry at me. Husband has a meet
So my boyfriend and I have only been dating for 6 months, since we started dating his dad has been battling cancer. His survival odds when we first met were very high and he was improving. However recently a turn for the worst occurred, he is estimated to
When you try to have discussion about relationship but partner won't talk. Then if you push for answers your partner threatens suicide. How do you deal with that? What are things you should or shouldn't say or do? They are seeing a
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