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Sad but true...I'm a 43yo who failed to launch in life...educated, intelligent (I feel the two are separate) a genuinely compassionate generous and loyal person...but I don't function in mainstream...I can be impulsive, struggle to regulate emotions, self
Tried to help daughter write an assignment for her uni course. Did most of the work myself. Now a day before she has to write her exam essay I found out that the structure was all wrong. We are supposed to structure the paragraphs as follows topic se
Hi everyone,I'm new here and kinda in a dark trench mentally at the moment.I feel like a toxic monster that doesn't deserve to get help.I've done so many horrible things in my life and hate the person I've become.I feel as if everyone I care about would b
Hi everyone today when I woke up this morning I felt depressed,in fact I woke up in the middle of the night last night convincing myself that Im a dissapointment to myself,special someone and family and then today I guess Ive prooved that negative thought
I am not having a very good morning. I have my exams soon, so I was vaguely planning to come to the library and start revising. Unfortunately, I got out of bed pretty late, so I don’t have much time. Social anxiety is annoying me this morning. &
Hello, new here. Trying to keep it short and not an essay so.. New mum, four month old boy. No support or family. Hubby moved interstate soon after son was born due to job. I recently moved to be with him. We are all alone here. New city never been
i don’t know why but I feel really confused and scared today and I keep trying to do things and then I end up just sitting or laying down because I don’t know what I am meant to be doing and I feel really scared but idk why exactly I know the meds are sca
I'm having trouble coping with the lockdown. I'm disappointed because I had a holiday booked this month with a good friend of mine. The 7 day lockdown was hard enough, but it's another 7 days. I can't foresee us getting out of lockdown after this extra 7
I have two appointments on Tuesday. Early in the morning, I'm seeing my counselor, and then soon after that, I'm seeing my doctor for the first time since it all kind of fell apart. She probably thinks I am going to talk about how much progress I've
Straight to the point.I quit the job. Started on Mon, quit this morning. I wasn't able to grasp their computer system at all. And next week I would be working on my own. I just knew I would crash and burn if I had to work on my own.I feel stupid, an idiot
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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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