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Without breaching guidelines I think I need to have a thread about this topic .... pls let me know mods ... I will try and be general ... and am happy to edit if mistakenly I am too specific.Finally getting to a place where I am prepared to seriously look
Firstly I have what appears to all a good life,I am in my late 50's and have a healthy Family and a supportive wife but things just don't seem real or tangible. I am worried its all an illusion and I will slip up letting it all slip away.Over the past cou
Have been struggling for the last year or so on/off with anxiety and depression. Really just wanted to make contact with people who are in the same boat.
I was watching a movie last night with my girlfriend and it featured mental illness. At one point in the film, the character living with MI becomes quite distressed and uncontrollable. I remember that is what I used to be like. At one point I was looking
Hi, this is my first post and I don't know if there's anything that can be done to help me. I have been diagnosed with depression for thirty years. I'm in my fifties and I'm forever, sad. I had a very dysfunctional family and I have been trying to cope wi
Hi, I found this forum during my extensive search for help for people with MI in my situation. I am in my 40's with BPD, PTSD, ADHD and MD. I had a well paying job in the Public service then took a redundancy and started my own business. Crashed and burne
Hi AllI have always suffer from depressionBut in the last four years life got a heap worse when I suffered from 4 to 5 heart attacks over a 8 month periodAs a result I ended up with a weakened heart muscleThis interned escalated my depressionTo mild to hi
Hi, im new. I was diagnosed with mental illness 20+ years ago. I find it very frustrating that i cannot get any legal help to fight misdiagnosis, many stories there all law firms wont touch mental health unless your rich to pay them off up front. So Drs
For 15 years I've had moderate to severe mental illness. In that time I've had multiple diagnoses from Panic Disorder to Bipolar type 2. But after 10 years of medication things haven't significantly improved. I'm past the crisis points of multiple panic a
Hello to all... If nothing else, this is to get 'it out'........I am a soft, kind gentle being, but have had nothing but emptiness, abuse rejection.. No friends/family. .. Love is something I now feel I will now never have from a partner.. My heart
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