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Love people and love meeting people but have restricted mobility due to cracked vertebrae. If I want to go anywhere I must catch a cab as I can’t drive because I have epilepsy. So I have no social life at all. I live in a country town so that’s even
Does the void of depression and anxiety ever ease? I'm over feeling so sad and crying. I'm over feeling so anxious that I get scared about feeling anxious. I'm just so lost in life and in my head right now. I'm struggling to maintain e
Hello everyone, this is my first post and I'm so glad to have found this forum. Instantly I'm worrying about whether I'm writing the right thing :face_with_rolling_eyes: so borderline of me, but then I smiled to myself and thought finally I have found peo
For the past two or three weeks now I have been feeling very emotional with my thoughts taking control, it's quite exhausting and I stay up most the night as I cannot "shut off" and when I do I usually wake up at 1-3am not being able to go back to sleep f
I need help. Almost everyday, i have this very heavy feeling, as if something inside me is about to explode, about to eat me alive.. I get dizzy at times just by experiencing this, migraine when it's worse.. Needless to say, im in a dark place, the worst
Hi There. I'm new and my 1st post needed to be rephrased so this will replace it. I'm a constant battler against anxiety and depression. I do not believe life has enough happy moments in it.I've made poor choices in my life and am paying the penalt
My early childhood from birth to eight was chaotic.. was physically, emotionally, psychologically & sexual abused. I was exploited and neglected, I lived with my 3 younger siblings in my mother's cesspool string of housing trust homes that she on
Hey everyone, I'm kind of new on here. I was a member on here in the past but that was son's ago, I'm sure everyone and thing has changed on here since then.. ANYWAY, my diagnosis is BPD but it has settled down a lot over recent years:) I am here
Hi there, I am 35 and this year experienced my third severe manic/psychotic episode. It had been 9 years since my last episode, so it was a real shock - brought on by stress and a lack of sleep. The experience has been really disruptive - I took ex
Hey everyone, I've just lost three more days of my life to fkn BPD. As a result of the three day struggle to survive, I am completely wrung out in every way. It's an effort to type. It's a glorious day and I'd love to be out in it, in the sun in the garde
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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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