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So Im posting because I have so much frustration counselling isn't really dealing with it, all they can really do is empathise. Trigger Warning: Involuntary Community Treatment Order Content/trigger warning (Highlight to read) I've been under a tr
Hi everyone I have come on today because I need help I am depressed and I am 21 weeks pregnant, with a not so supportive partner , any suggestions on how to start being positive again any day today strategies for making your self happy againthan
Hi all, i'm new here and thought i'd try make a post to meet some ppl here and find out how this place works 🙂 I've always been a poor sleeper but this year I have become phobic about sleep, obsessed with past trumatic events which I keep reliving on loop
G'day all..I find myself wondering if someone who has never suffered from depression can experience a single event that throws them into the very depths of it.I started a different thread about 18 months ago regarding the loss of my relationship. Tw
Hey, so I’m new to this forum and I guess I joined to talk to people who know where I’m coming from. I have suffered from GAD since forever and depression for the last 8 years it has been well controlled until recently. The last month has been terri
I’m 42, and I’ve been surviving life and in a dissociative state since I was about 14 years old. I had a difficult childhood and as a result, I am left with a lot of trauma. I went undiagnosed until about 2 years ago. Psychologist’s continued to tell
I am not very connected to my conscious mind, so I’m never quite sure what I’m thinking! But the suicidal ideations, I’m very aware of…and quite frankly, I’ve had enough of letting them in and then letting them go, just to come back again. I be
Hiya. I am recovering from schizophrenia, I religiously take my meds and have started running. I have been told I will never work again. Sadly my illness has meant the loss of lifelong friends and families who found the delusions too dif
I have been battling depression and anxiety since i was a teenager. I have been with my husband for 16 and the last couple of years have been hard. I dont feel up to being intimate due to many reasons and this has lead to some marital difficulti
I recently requested my file to be released to me through Freedom of Information. A lot of stuff happened to me in the mental health system as a teenager I couldn’t explain, and I wanted to see what had happened through the eyes of others, in this case tr
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