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At approximately 4 am this morning I suddenly awoke and I heard this voice that kept saying "drink water." I hear voices due to what has been diagnosed as SZD, so this was nothing new, other than instead of being negative it seemed rather innocuous. I dec
Going through a really bad patch at the moment. That ugly black cloud is swallowing me up once again. Every morning I'm disappointed that I wake up. I'm trying to use all the skills and coping strategies that I've been taught and I'm sti
EDIT: OK, so I talked about how my University changed their policy overnight, as a response to the situation in NSW, and that counselling appointments are online or over the phone only, but that's actually not true. Face-to-face appointments are stil
I was in the car with my sister and my brother. My sister was asking me (again) why I can't go to work. I remained steadfast, that I was not going to say anything, and that it's over now. My brother said, just off the cuff, that my manager told him w
This is a term I have had applied to me and some of my behaviour before. I've never identified with it. Van der kolk 's "in the body" book on trauma, I have identified with this. Living with an alarm system going off all day inside your body moves you tow
Hi everyone i'm Rachael, i'm 27 and live with severe BPD, OCD, Major anxiety and depression, PTSD. I currently work 5 days a week in child care and am really struggling with actually wanting to go to work. I was going good for awhile and now i am so
Hello, I've decided to consult a mental health practitioner to try to address some issues that have been causing me problems for years and are now really starting to affect my career (or lack thereof)--namely chronic procrastination, lack of self-discipli
Last night I was struggling a lot with trauma. I have a lifelong disability (from birth) and due to that I saw a lot of doctors as a kid, most of them good (but painful & humiliating) but some of them bad. I know my parents were trying to
Crazy people don't know they're crazy right?So doubting myself and my sanity is a sign of positive self adjustment or cry for help?I've been told I can be me, then five minutes later I'm being accused of being cranky, distant, or just weird. Sometime
Too much is happening at once. I am beyond being triggered I'm in " about to have full on mental breakdown" mode
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