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Thank you for reading my message. I would be grateful for any advice I recieved about my concerns. 1. I'm looking for advice about handling criticism. When I interact with other people, I feel troubled because I interpret their actions as violence.
I have been under the care of my psychiatrist for over 5 years. I was diagnosed with major depression and schizoaffective disorder. I have had several hospital admissions including one that involved 12 sessions of ECT. I was petrified at the prospect but
I'm a autistic person with Dissociative Identity Disorder and severe depression and aphantasia.We have no idea what or why we are actually sad. Just that I can't communicate with anyone in the system anymore as everyone has separated from me. Leaving me i
Hey Sane... Posting here to put things down on 'paper' and to hopefully get a different perspective. I've been stuck in my head lately, and also in a painful body that's causing frustration and irritability, and also a huge rollercoaster of thoughts!
And I have no hope that it’ll get better, despite being told by everyone that spoken to that it would. But I know for a fact that it won’t, not even in decades time.
Hello, at my wit's end and hoping someone might have advice. My brother in his 40s (likes living away from us, no immediate family of his own and small extended family only) seems to have (undiagnosed?) irrational paranoid delusions that are increasing, w
So often I get treated like what I've been through is an inconvenience, that it's something that needs accommodating, that it's something others need to cater for. So often I get judged and manipulated, gaslit, invalidated, undermined, steamrolled an
I've never felt as though I had a bad childhood. In so many ways I had a great upbringing... but, there were problems that I've only just started to uncover now, which may be an answer to some of the ways I've learned to act/react as a young adult a
My partner has been really struggling with their mental health our entire relationship. We've had a lot of fights, a lot of misunderstandings, and a lot of escalated moments. But my understanding of it was that we always came out of those into a space of
Hi everyone, I found this page looking for forums for supporting a loved one with mental illness. Im honestly feeling quite overwhelmed, so I hope it’s okay to share our situation and ask for guidance from anyone who has walked a similar p
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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.
SANE values diversity. We are committed to providing a safe, culturally appropriate, and inclusive service for all people, regardless of their ethnicity, faith, disability, sexuality, or gender identity.
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