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Lately I've only been able to post on my own thread and I barely respond to the amazing and awesome support from the people posting. I wish I had the space in my head to read other threads and unstand the struggles they are also going through. I wish
Hi,This is my first time posting here. I called lifeline last night and it did NOT go well. I very rarely call because I have had so many negative experiences in the past, but I was desperate. I explained to the counsellor that a large part of my mess is
I'll admit I've pretty much ignored my mental health for 10 years or so, I had a pretty good run for a while there. But anxiety and depression came back out of nowhere, suddenly I was very close to another suicide attempt. These days I'm at le
First of all, I feel like a really bad person writing this. I know I have felt stigma around my illnesses. I am a disability worker, and I also have a psychiatric disability/disabilities. (Lived exprience) I have just found out one of my clients is a
Hi, I'm struggling with depression. Everything seems pointless. All I want to do is disappear from life as I know it. It's hard and draining. I don't know how I manage to get up and go to work, function there to a degree (not good enough for my man
I have begun self-harming this past week or so, for the first time in my life. I told my counselor, and she asked me why. A couple of reasons. Weirdly enough, I feel like it's a way for my physical condition to match my emotional condition.
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Hello everyoneI'm in a bit of a pickle and really struggling with it. I had the conversation with my wife lastnight, I had to explain to her 'it feels like standing on a cliff edge, just waiting for something to push me over' I think that push is here, bu
I am feeling lost and struggling to keep goingI had therapy and it was too much. Sometimes she pushes me and it's too much and I don't know what happened but know I left amd ended upsomewhere in my car and haven't felt right since. I think this is the fir
Hi Everyone its LostAngel and yes Im gonna talk about relationships again but more specifically men and their feelings and how to better support men emotionally Ive been romantically involved with a man whom
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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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