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'Were her thoughts really prodromal symptoms, or was it some epiphany in the external world.' by BambiFawnIllness has a spiritual side to it, but are the voices in schizophrenia and ptsd really from just a
I'm in the middle of a very rough period where my mental health is concerned (hopefully nearer the tail end, actually.) I'm in a period of extremely heavy hallucination, delusion, and major depressive trends. I've recently learned that my diagnosis may ha
I'm struggling today and finding a lack of support from my usually supportive husband who is having a difficult week at work. I'm 26 weeks pregnant with my second. Have an almost 2 and half year old who is a burning ball of energy. I've started on antidep
A few months ago my therapist said i can message her between our sessions. I began to do that and used her as my support person..ie. if something anxiety provoking came up i would message asking for advice. Recently i was told not to message her anymore a
People often tell me to hang in, it will get better someday. For the last ten years they have been wrong every consecutive day. I still don't know how to make friends or keep myself hygenic, or whether or not I'm being a jerk in the moment I'm being a jer
when I was 8 it was discovered that i have a congenital spinal deformation, when I started puberty I started the teenage angst, when I was 15 I was diagnosed with Depression, at 17 I became schizoaffective, when I was 20 I began being adicted, when I was
I don't understand why my mother has been abusing me for years. A mother is meant to be loving and protective, but mine has married 4 husbands by my age of just 18, and this was very unsettling and traumatic for me, and of course divorce and having
Hi all. I'd been using a youth mental health forum, but having recently turned twenty I thought this might be a good place to transition to. I hope that's okay. My story with mental illness started way back with a bunch of undiagnosed anxiety (gener
Hello,I am a male and am 16 years old. I am currently a student.This is my story of what I believe to be my psychosis, my anxiety and my depression.When I was 9 years old, I experienced something that I had thought nothing of at the time. It was a red dot
Hi,I have never used a forum like this before, I usually deal with my problems independently, but I have been really struggling recently and have wanted someone to talk to, so here I am. I have multiple mental illnesses which I tend to just plod along wit
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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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