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Yesterday was a good day, I was quite positive and happy.Today I woke up with agonising pain in my head and eyes, the best I thought was a migrane. I was up for a little bit and really felt like crap, overly tired. So I went back to bed, my sister woke me
I'm sick again and just been up to the hospital for the third time in just over a week.I've been told if I have to come back in the next 48hrs they will admit me for at least a 24hr.I hate hospitals but being severe asthmatic with a chest infection it doe
Hi, I’m a 28 year old male living in Sydney. I have so many things that make life worth living. Lately they just get so drowned out by this fear, anxiety and depression. I feel like I never feel good enough to enjoy what life has to offer and all I e
Crippled with anxiety. Anxious about so many things. Are there medications for this ? 😳
Has anybody ever tried to diagnose a psychiatrist? I understand many psychologists and counsellors have different issues from lived experience, but the psychiatrists I have met all seem to have some kind of fatal character flaw, normally revealed as some
I've had "depression" since I was about 6. This was the time I started going to school. I hated school. I was an outdoorsy kid who grew up in the country. I found sitting at a desk repeating sums and spelling incredibly boring. And I never unde
hi to everyone.I'm feeling awful again and looking at ways out. I was just hoping for a hello from someone?
Its not something I tend to talk much about mainly because I didnt have much need to. Ive always dealt with paranoia, thinking people are talking behind your back, conspiring againist you, that sort of stuff, I always figured that it happened to eve
Hi I've never written on anything like this before. I apologise if this turns into a novel. I have bpd, anxiety, depression, PTSD and agoraphobia. I've struggled with life since I was very young child started. Used hard drugs from the age of 11 (I ha
Hi All Introducing myself as a 53 year old mother of 3 adult sons. I am a survivor of various traumatic episodes and am triggered by negative events into anxiety and insomnia and fear.My frustration is I consider myself to be reasonably in
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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.
SANE acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.
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