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We have free medical care in Australia - if we can waiting long enough Some years ago when I was in the public system my operation would have been a year after I first got into the queue - I opted out - in all that time I was thoroughly over it and m
I need help please. I am going through a very rough time with my personal life. I feel like I am going to have a nervous breakdown. I struggle to cope and think alot these days about harming myself.
Last year I was raped three times by a man I trusted, who knew that I spent two years being sexually assaulted in the workplace in the past. This man told me that he loved me and cared about me.He was working in a self help organisation as a paid wo
I don't feel like anyone takes me seriously.There's a fking alien in my room telling me what to do. He wants me dead.I was freaking thinking I was going to die or that I've lost my mind so I called lifeline and they told me I'm just hallucinating and it w
I feel so alone. No one seems to understand me. No one seems to care. I sit crying but no one checks to see if I am ok. They don’t understand what they say hurts me. I am really that bad..
Need the advice of those who have are counsellors. I've been diagnosed with DID. I seldom let any alters out...we are co-conscious. I've been seeing my therapist for just over a year...good therapist. He has never asked or suggested that he meet the other
I am in an absolute panic right now and i have been trying to calm down all day i saw my psychiatrist and he said i didnt have many good opptions left as far as meds go and now i am very scared because he said my next options were likely TMS or ECT and i
Ok I'm probably asking the same question in different ways but my main battle in healing from BPD is that I have gone from an abusive home straight to an unmedicated bipolar partner who is abusive.All my life either by my family and then after with my par
Hi AllHow do you cope with big emotions? How do you access coping strategies you learnt?I’ve spent the past few days angry, raging, feeling literally alienated and on the wrong planet. And then out of the blue it just hit me, right in the gut and I got so
Hi everyone, I have been intermittently using saneforums, particularly on the social forums but lately I haven't been online so much. I'm yet to open up about my "story" but I thought this evening I could start somewhere. I have b
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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.
SANE acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.
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