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I don't know If this is a real thing or not but in a couple of weeks I'll be moving on from the teenage yeas and I'm sobbing because the entire of my teenage years have been battling SH SI and an ED and never got a normal teenage years missed out on schoo
Hi, I was diagnosed with psychosis 3 years ago. I feel that my symptoms have re surfaced. I plan to contact my gp tomorrow. Has anyone been diagnosed for schizophrenia? What were the steps prior to and following diagnosis?
Me first!At around age 7 I got interested in physics, more specifically, I was interested in finding out how much weight an umbrella could hold. This sudden new found interest saw me on top of our garage roof armed only with mum's umbrella and an abs
Hey Guys , Not really sure where to start here but I need to start somewhere. Been in and out of a bad headspace for the last 20 or so months. It all started when my now Ex Partner and I went to Europe for the trip of a li
I’m a 52 yr old gay male that has never been in a relationship and really never experienced love. My health is declining to the point that I’m concerned that any day now I could have a stroke or heart attack ( I’m at peace with that as I’ve never rea
Hi, After years of trying to find someone to listen to me, I learned to give up on wanting to share my thoughts, struggles and opinions with others. But after all this time, I still wanted to do this so here I am. So if are kind enough to read it til
I have CPTSD, much of it related to 2 decades of DV. I am recovering slowly, so, so slowly. With soooooo much work. Today, in a totally unrelated event, the cashier at the service station locked me and a few other people in the store. He su
I don’t really know what I’m doing here. I’m feeling very burnt out. I am a small business owner and struggling to make ends meet given the current financial climate. I was evicted from my house 6 months ago when the owners decided they wanted to move bac
TW: mentions child abuse, SA, death I have been hovering in the Our Stories forum for a couple of days now, hesitant to share my story for a number of reasons, but also acknowledging the purpose behind sharing. I've started my journey on the Guided Recove
I have to share this. I'm in a bad place right now. I am 50yrs old and have been suffering with childhood trauma since I was 5. I grew up in a home with 3 other brothers, a mother and a father. Father was very abusive. My abuse started from age 5 from whe
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