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Hi, wrote a few days ago that mum aged 83, had developed leukemia and how difficult that had been. In the last month, she started 'menstruating'. She had her ultrasound yesterday and I know enough about anatomy to see that she has something in
I am really not coping with things at all at the moment. I am not able to manage my eating issues at all, I can't sleep, I am not keeping up with uni, I feel really horrible and agitated, i am in physical pain and I keep bursting into tears both randomly
Why am I waking up feeling that a dream I just had is my actual life? And that it can take up to a couple of hours to finally feel like it was a dream, even with all the reality checks I perform. For example, my dream usually consist of my husband wanting
I have a really great support worker now from PIR helping me to apply for the NDIS- i still don't understand what it even is no matter how much she tries to explain it to me. She had obtained my medical records from the hospital psychiatrist & I
sorry to start another thread. but i was wondering if anyone else does not get taken seriously by their family or carers because they have a mental illness? No one ever took my feelings seriously while i was growing up and always said they were not valid
Thankyou so, so much for your response It helps so much just to have that confirmation that others feel the same way I have faced this kind of abuse my whole life I agree that some of it is because people don't want to hear it but sadly my experience with
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So ..... guess it had to happen. I either completely missed the early warning signs of an impending greasy pole decline or made an active choice to ignore them. You can be sure that smarty pants here believed the 'it won't happen to me' mantra
I have a very honest question that anyone can feel free to answer and I just want to say upfront I am NOT calling anyone out or placing blame of any kind here I only want to understand something so that I can either work around it better or put it to the
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