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Over the last several months, I have been battling severe depression and anxiety for which I am seeking treatment from a local psychologist. My story begins with me starting my law degree in July 2014 and completing it in November 2018: a hard slog for wh
@ lapsesEarly last year 2016 my Dad died after a long painful illness (cancer), which he had been fighting for 6 years.He survived that long only because of continuous treatments, otherwise he would have been gone in 6 months (they said).My relationship w
I am in my 40s, lived through anorexia in my teens and again in my 20s, have been fighting again for 5 years and have never felt more alone. Due to living outside a regional area help is nesr non existent unless you can afford to pay for private cou
Hi all, I am new to this forum and just learning to navigate my way around. I've read quite a few of the discussion threads and even contributed to one! It is a new experience for me to try to share my experiences in an online forum. I usually keep all of
I don't know how to start this off, but I'm just looking for some healthy ways to deal with what my shrink has diagnosed me with; complex trauma, and d.i.d) ....
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Today's Monday and no hope, no direction and feeling like an outcast. It is 5 years away from middle age and no qulifications nor skills. there isn't any point being here. God damn devil your winning.
I feel so ashamed to have anxiety and when I have 3 anxiety attacks in 2 days it's painful and I can't control when I have one and arguments make me feel worse and have more it's embarrassing and scary I have tears during an attack only way to control it
At a point of no return, lost soul, not done much in life ever since leaving school, and am from an non-english background (such disappoitment in many eyes). Never had much interest in anything after leaving school after year 11 therefore never per
Hi I’m blackguppy 🙂 So I have borderline personality disorder. I think the first time I was diagnosed the illness properly, after hearing it scattered throughout my late childhood, was when I was about 18. I never took the diagnosis seriously becaus
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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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