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Well I here I thought I could manage this tume of year, thought I was ready, thought I was prepared.Christmas lunch was held last week for my mum, dad two sister's and their respective families. It was nice catching up with them but also difficult, first
I guess I can answer that with a no, or we wouldn't be here.Personally I've tried a few things I wont mention, but I suspect are common attempts to make me feel better. What is the magic pill?what would it do for me? Well its a biggie -I wo
Sometimes when we're not doing as well as we'd like it's easy to get caught up worrying about lesser things and fretting our little energy away.Like lately I've been fretting about my physical health, and my mental health because of feelings, disturbed sl
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I fell asleep after Christmas lunch and woke up from this wild vivid dream. I think it was triggered by stress from an ordinary probation review meeting I had at work. In the dream I was working driving busses and I'd been just randomly taking out bus and
Ok, so I started a discussion about 9 things not to say to someone with MI - statements that we hear from other people who just don't get it. But I've recently started to ponder, what about unhelpul things we say to ourselves? Sometimes we can be our own
I have been living with bipolar disorder for 25 years. For the first fifteen years I suffered badly under the management of pyschiatrists, GPs. I only was in hospital twice (last time was fifteen years). After my last admission (due to
So I avoided the annual family get together. Aunts in their 80's cousins and second cousins. No idea how many will turn up, but too many for me!Their my husbands family by the way.It isn't that I don't like them, they are all really lovely
Hi, as you may have gathered I'm new to this forum. Why am I here? I am hoping that by reaching out to others with similar experiences to my own I may gather the strength and insight I need to help me "move on" - whatever that means. I have suffered from
I would like to pose a question to the forum. I feel this is a topic which we talk about often on this forum and we all have feelings about but which the mental health sector both clinical and non clinical themselves appear to not be aware of. On a sector
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