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Hello all, I thought I would write a little bit about my journey and share my experience. Trigger warning as I do mention some of my trauma.From a very young child I unfortunately experienced trauma. I was adopted into family due to my mother being an add
Hello, first post. I dont know what to write or what to do. Im mid 30s with 2 kids (18, 15). Ive been with my husband since i was 17. I have rheumatoid arthritis. I had a really bad flare up 3 years ago and im no longer able to work. I havent
....and why doesn't that feel like a good thing (or at least an ok thing more than than it does). I feel it should. Instead, I'm guilty when I do do better and I'm guilty when I do worse. I'm a one-person social disease over here. Give me an identity
I have been diagnosed with bipolar. I follow all of the advice from my doctors, I'm taking the pills and trying to do the work but things are not going well. I've been doing lots of research on my illness trying to find out new management strategies and l
Hi everyone 🙂 I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts/ideas/ experiences that might help put this all in some context or further understanding for me? I've had issues with maintaining friendships beyond a couple of core friends for quite a wh
"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed" -PANDA 💝 Perinatal mental health is something that I’m really passionate about because I had varying degrees of antenata
Hi all, So...somehow I seem to have made myself a deal with @CheerBear that we are both going to venture into the super scary world of yoga next Monday. I'm SCARED!!!! I've been trying to psych myself up to go to a class for about a year and now than
I'm in my early to mid thirties and have fallen through the cracks for years now. I've always struggled to maintain my life with a level head or feeling of security and wholeness.I'm very introverted, and have lived in share houses my whole life. It has t
Im new here. I suffer from general anxiety and depression. It mainly revolves around the fact that I was overprotected and mostly just kept by myself as a child. I was finally able to free myself at 30 and decided to migrate here. Sadly, it is now apparen
Hello Forum Friends Todays my Birthday and its actually been pretty good so far,slept in half the day,been listening to music all afternoon and will have takeout for dinner soon,then cheesecake for dessert,not alone today but not fussed about having a bi
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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.
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