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I'm really worried about my future...There's so much effort required to get anywhere in life and I don't think I can do it.I'm always worried that I won't 'get there'For someone my age I'm very worried and very stressed as well as not being very optimisti
I hear breathing all the time and I see Lazer lights on the wall. I get very scared and anxiety is killing me.
One of the things I'm most ashamed of, when I look back on my high school years, is my propensity to get involved in the lives of others.I don't even want to go into detail. I think because I was bullied in childhood, I'm about ten years off in my develop
Hi everyone I'm new here so I'm not sure what to say. I've just been struggling lately and coming out of a bad migraine attack. While I was really sick I found myself ruminating over past events, I suppose I had too much time to think. I know I can
Today I was told that independence will not cause me long term satisfaction. Yet, as I have tried unsuccessfully for more than ten years to form a friendship, I question this assertion.The prevailing strategy suggested to me for gaining friends is to part
Hi everyone, The day has just started and I literally want the day to end already… I woke up feeling overwhelmed by something I can’t explain… I’m overly stressed at something I can’t also describe… I can say I def woke up at the wrong side of the be
I thought my extreme fatigue was due to worsening depression and a medication change. My psychiatrist told me today that a B12 deficiency can contribute to extreme fatigue and depression. I'm glad she looked at my blood test results as the GP didn't comme
This is primarily a vent. I’m just so over feeling like crap. I am working through a childhood trauma which was partially forgotten for many years but is the root of numerous other traumatic incidents. Through heaps of counselling the other traumatic mome
TW: Thoughts, Ideations, Urges and safety risk Firstly, I wanted to thank the person who took the necessary step in keeping me safe the other day by calling the emergency services for me when I can't do it myself. I honestly don't know whe
I'm not really sure what to do. So i'm really struggling with my mental health when I'm not at work. Like flashbacks, high anxiety, dissociation and depression. If I'm not at work I spend most of my time in bed feeling horrible and avoiding people. I also
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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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