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First time posting here. Don't want to bother my friends and family with my current mental health. I'm struggling today. Have suffered from ptsd since I was a child and with work stress and raising a toddler I'm just feeling overwhelmed right now. Part of
Hello. I work in an acute mental health setting, and have a history of my own mental health issues. The last few years I have been doing really well, but I've had a bit of a difficult patch the last few months, with increasing anxiety, poor sleep, low moo
Hi… I have been having a pretty rough time lately and have tried ringing beyond blue and lifeline and the suicide callback service… I don’t know if I have just been unlucky, but I feel like the people on the other end of the line are just going through a
I never speak about it but I have decided to try my best Last year I was working in child protection when I found out one of the children I was case managing was being sexually abused by her father. My Team Leader did not agree. She and I ha
I am lost and hopeless I reach out for support only to fall deeper into the gaps of support services. friends and family don't understand and i can't full express whats going on to another person i have weeks of being great i can stay on track and then ev
Hi, i need to take an interstate flight on my own. I don’t know how. I don’t know how I can deal with all the people, the stress … I can’t even manage shopping in a small supermarket. I live in a small town so getting to the airport itself will be hard. T
During a recent counselling session, I was advised to try to accept my depression/anxiety. Can anyone give me some insight into how to go about this and whether anyone has found calm/peace/contentment practicing this. Both are a constant lingering for me
I'm sick of having to ignore or downplay how unstable my mental health is since moving to this shitty rural town just because my husband has a stable job and I have to do what's best for the family. Is wrong for me to ask him to put in for a transfer to s
I had a shocking day with demanding customers, one of whom is the father of a staff member. I seriously don't understand why customers are annoyed sometimes. I work in an inbound call centre. They called us, not the other way around, but they act like we'
Hello, first time poster. Please let me know if I've written anything wrong. For the last week I've been convinced that I'm in the wrong universe. Like I made the wrong decision about something really small 5 years ago and now ... butterfly effect ..
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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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