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Hi @Former-Member @Faith-and-Hope @Former-Member, @Former-Member @Former-Member, @BlueBay - Anyone I might have forgotten This computer gave up the ghost yesterday - and I bought a new one today - I left it at the shop to hav
So lately anxiety has been getting the better of me.My (ex-)best friend wrote about me in her blog and when I confronted her about it she ditched me, leaving me betrayed and vulnerable. Since then, I've been struggling with my current friendship (which is
Hi, I'm new, I don't know if this will help? - I don't know if anything helps? I have a complicated life (as I know we all do) sometimes it feels like there's no way out of the complications and the walls keep closing in around me. I've been fighting for
Finding this on the news this morning made me laugh. Reminds me of some discussions I had with my brother before he was diagnosed with schizophrenia & treated. Sometimes it really is hard to know what to believe. Love the bit at the end :). Anyway, ju
I give up, I have tried psych I've tried cousillor I'm on meds so I not have a permanent disability? No apparently now am I not needing some assistance no apparently now why is it so hard to get help
Hey, Everyone. feeling very anxious today. Found out my brother- in - law passed away. Funeral Friday. feel I have to go out of respect. have not met him. but respect the fact that he was my sister's husband. The trouble is this sister has caused me a lot
Did it tonight - I'm one of the early ones 🙂Anyone else done it?
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Hi Faith and Hope re about Social Phobia to Bridgetjones. Suffer from this myself at times and wonder hasany forum member any hints or suggestions on how to cope with same. Have just done a big fortnight shop-ping venture and find it difficult to make con
Let's all make a giantic leap from my daughter's pink penguins to other family humour My son was very literal and the English Idiom was something he did not understand So - a group of us were discussing a birthday party and let it slip and said
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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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