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Hi everyone! Is anyone living in Melbourne and finding the seasonal change really hard? What the?! Been totally fine and suddenly waking up feeling so heavy 😂🤷♀️ Thinking of increasing my medication dose but also wondering will I adjust naturally if
I have nowhere to go. The local Mental Health Service has traumatised and rejected me. My GP does not want to deal with anything unless I take drugs again. The phone and online services do not help and do not offer confidentiality.
I feel like I just can't anymore. I started DBT 6 weeks ago after a suicide attempt and getting diagnosed. Meantime I kept going back to my ex and being intimate with him despite no reassaurances of what the nature of our link was. It's intense and affect
Does anyone keep getting 'flashbacks' from many years ago - going back to school days - bad experiences in the classroom and things like that It's incredible how they stick with you even many years later even though you don't want to think about it
I have schizophrenia. I have started a new job.I put myself in a fight and flight response a lot of the time. I need to find a safe place mentally to talk and interact with others. I have read the special event forum on creating and maintaining connection
My child left her old school due to bullying & exclusion- she started a new school & the new school is aware of this- I dropped my child off at school today for her third day at the new school & when She got to her desk - which is a double des
Hi New here. Over the last 18 months I’ve had 3 different types of anti depressants.All of these have caused me many side affects and no lifting of depression. Have been under the care of a psychiatrist and am getting no solutions or relief. The medicatio
When we're stressed or overwhelmed - Its the worst time to have to also deal with intrusive suicidal thoughts. Why does it come? I fight so hard to not GO THERE again, and here it is, in my face, at the worst of times. I'm
The last few days have been absolutely heart breaking and extremely gruelling. My son came home for a few days, minus his gf and baby daughter. I was quite upset that we weren’t going to see our grand daughter. We have had a few issues
Hi New here thought' id join after seeing a post, I have Anxiety disorder but at times i find Paranoia comes into it , is that normal?. Like example someone asks me a question? or i says something , and im like are they referring to me?... or fill a form
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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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