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I'll try and keep this as brief as possible.I have no friends (I don't mind that). My fiance is my best friend and we have a great relationship.My family (or lack thereof) are nasty pieces of work who would rather see me homeless and fail in life than thr
Hey, sorry about all this. I just need some coping strategies for stuff. Primarily, I need to speak to a specialist, but I’m really anxious and self-conscious about it, and I keep putting it off. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could deal with i
Hello everyone, I'm new here, hopefully I'm posting in the right forum 🙂 Thank you for having me. I have a brother (38 y/o) that is battling some mental health issues and I wanted to touch base with someone who has schizophrenia or perhaps s
Good evening, i got got asked by @CheerBear to post a little of my story for you all to read. So so on the 2nd of March this year I finally had enough of my marriage and walked away. Now I didn’t walk away with out good reas
Hi everyone. I just need tips on how to manage anxiety. I had a anxiety attack around 3:30PM and went away around 6:30 I usually have to lye down as I feel paralysed to do anything. I get racing thoughts and it’s hard to calm myself I do breathing exercis
Ive been struggling with mental illness since i was 12 years old, im 27 now and in those 27 years of life ive been through alot of crap, in 2012 i lost my mother to suicide ag 39, i miss her everyday and it was very hard me and my sister. in 2015 my
Hi my name is, well I can’t tell you this at. why am I here? Well I have done the the wrong thing. I had been under a lot of stress and well I stuffed everything. I ended up attempting to take my own life. I have destroyed everything in my life. For some
Sometimes I feel like others are trying to control what I do. I know they mean well but it is frustrating that they can’t cope with me changing my routine which I don’t have problems with. I know that in life it is not the same everyday but I’m expected t
So apparently there are around a dozen artists working on a street art project to rejuvenate the city heart. I learnt about this, this morning via the newspaper. I had always suggested and argued for such an idea for a few years, and now it has finally be
I see a lot of victims here who share the grief of those who have been cast aside by a society which seems unable to accomodate diversity, but I don't count myself among this group. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1983 when I was 27, so I'm an old t
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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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