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I recently started a new job and while I only work part time, it's spread across 5 days, which really gets to me and I find myself exhausted by day 4. I want to ask my manager for a reduction in hours or to work longer shifts in fewer days. There are two
Hi all,I am starting this thread as I could not find one like it.Does anyone use Essential Oils as part of their mental health?How do you use them?I have started looking into Essential Oils. I know there are lots of brands around but I have been using doT
Hello,im not feeling well at the moment and I wonder, why do we live? My care team says live in the moment. But I look around and the moments don’t make sense. It’s a constant hedgehog day. My life is therapy, housework and ‘pleasurable activities’, all c
I'm sure I'm not the only who thinks (though not consciously) 'oh wow I've had a good day, this isn't me, I need to destroy my day or trigger myself, why, because that's all I deserve' On a more serious note, how do let's talk about how we can
I am 19 years old and have been told by 4 different psychiatrist that i have BPD but no one wants to diagnose me because of my age. My partner is amazing we have only been together for 7 months but we have been through hell toghter and i am terrified he w
Hi all, So I was talking to a friend today who suggested that maybe I should change therapist and honestly I don't know what I should do. Here is why, I have a wonderful psych she has helped me alot but despite seeing her for almost three
Today in class we started a new subject, working with people with mental health issues. We discussed schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder today in class after watching You Can't Ask That - Schizophrenia as a class. Everyone was really interested in
I don't understand why I can't be normal or at least feel normal. I have many lows and I don't want this to be my life. Small little things bother me. I just want the pain to go away. I'm ready for a new start, a better start. I want the thoughts to stop.
The ups and downs of depression suck. They happen suddenly, one minute i can be totally happy and the next be in a dark place. I have a hard time expressing my feelings. I only have my husband to talk to which can be hard. I don't want to hurt him. Any su
I was left by my parents when I was sixteen and many decades later I am haunted by memories of rejection. I have a relationship with my parents but am recently experiencing intence memories of abandonment. I'm working through these memories and rea
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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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