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Hello all or anyone, i am new and just joined this forum and this is a quick look at my story. I am now 57 years old and have suffered from depession since early teens and i have never really come to terms or been able to control the symptems, the anxiety
Hi all I have been feeling terrible and so tired and aching for so long, that I finally gave up functioning and took to my bed. My spine will need an operation next year but it was the tiredness that beat me. I went to see my lovely GP on Thursday an
I would like to make about one of the organisations linked to this forum. The organisation will not tell me how to go about this. As they are a non profit helpline the mental health services commisioner will not assist. They are funded by the Victorian de
This has become such a messy thing. Did the people who set this up realise that it would be so messy. And get dragged out for so long. They must have a stomach. The longer it drags out the more time things have to mature and evolve, and that doesn't
"During the Age of Strife [our present era], it seems as though people are seldom amiable; rather, they are always trying to outdo one another. This fundamental competitiveness has given rise to the name Age of Strife. But this is exactly the reason
After getting my life back on track and looking after myself, I find, one day during meditation, that my cousin has turned up. He passed away in 1980 in a terrible accident we were both involved in.He said "I'm sorry. My mum made me do it." or words
Paris happened. And I spiralled into deep melancholia. Some desperate and tenuous thing in me has me plugged into the world's harm and hate. I am a canary in the coalmine. I fall, and fall and spiral down in the maelstrom of the world's brotherhood of hat
More of me writing about the same old stuff. Because this is they only thing I can think of to do to pass the time. I think it might be better for me to swamp you with my stuff than to sit around drinking. Having said that I can't promise myself, eit
Have other people had problems with finding understanding GP'S when you have mental illness.I have BPD and have been through 30 GP'S and today another GP walked away and said BPD patients are to difficult for her and couldnt continue being my GP.
At 47 I am only now putting together the puzzles that I have lived with since I was a small kid. I don't see my life improving so I can't see why I should bother. It's a tangled mess of abuse and trauma and then being sidelined. And that was before I was
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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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