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Welcome and getting started

Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

New here? Welcome to the SANE Forums! We are so happy you found us and have joined our wonderful community. There are lots of people here like you, who can understand what you might be going through and offer valuable peer support.

You may see members reaching out to share their stories, asking questions about mental health, looking for others who get it, seeking support and offering support. We hope you find this a supportive and welcoming space to be.

We want to get to know you, and introduce you to other members of the SANE Community.

To get started, you can simply post here by clicking "reply" to introduce yourself and a fun fact or two about you.

Or, you can introduce yourself to the community by starting a new discussion thread! How to do that you ask? Follow the below steps to create your first post.

  • Click back into the Welcome & Getting Started topic area
  • Click the ‘New Discussion’ Button
  • Type in a subject title
  • Enter your post (there are some helpful tips on how you can introduce yourself below)
  • Then click post!

Feel free to check out our "how-to" video here: https://youtu.be/y9y-b7q43eQ?si=79nIOvHs5Qxm7w0j

You may see our Peer Support Workers welcoming new members in this space, so please reach out if you have any questions, or if we can help you get started 🙂 We are always happy to help! To reach us, @moderator or email us at team@saneforums.org. We look forward to getting to chatting soon

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Re: Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

G'day, @tyme

@Case-Ahn-13

@BipolarRich

Thanks for the mention, I've been meaning to pop in for a chat.

Hope everyone is doing well.

I had my nephew, sister and her fiancee over on Saturday.

Was a blast seeing my 2yo nephew bust moves and speak like a pro. It's the little things, right?

How was your weekend, everyone?

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@Noblegnosis ,

Kids are sooo funny. My niblings live next door to me so I spend significant time with them. They always make me laugh. Even when they make me angry, I can't stay angry for long.

Kiddos are cute when they learn to walk and talk. They have a world to discover that's before them.

It sounds like you are pretty close to them?

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Hi, Nitrogenous here 🙂

Thought about giving this forum a try to be part of a forum that is more recovery-focused and gain insight into various coping mechanisms as I'm navigating through my chronic mental health problems 🙂

Fun fact, I also have experience as a peer recovery support worker within the MH system and helping others navigate through their mental health challenges also gave me hope 🙂 Hopefully, I won't get judged here for being a peer worker who is currently struggling myself as a lot of services out there unfortunately still have that stigma.

Cheers,
Nitrogenous

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Re: Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Hi, Im new too, I just wanted to say im so glad your trying to work on it, its hard. please know that just because you talk to your loved ones, it doesnt make you a burden! i obviously dont know your partner, but ive been a carer and the one needing care. sometimes having the other person talk to you about how they are feeling feels like 'finally!' that explains it, i had this whole other reason in my head I thought it was, or I thought it was me!

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Re: Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Welcome @nitrogenous!

We are so happy to have you here.

I am sure your experience as peer worker will be invaluable for our community.

Looking forward to learning more about you and your story. 🥰

Reach out if you have any questions. ✨

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Re: Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Welcome @YoshisEgg!

How are you?

So lovely to have you here too. 🫶

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Re: Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Howdy.

Im Yoshis Egg. I get shit out and reborn on an infinate time loop. I am also great at catching annoying things with my tongue. I am dinosaur. The green variety. I am here because I have been driven to a sort of maddness by rainbow road

for real though, Im here to try out different forms of help, and learn with designs on doing peer work sometime. While i navigate Bipolar, C-PTSD, DID and probable ADHD. I am bad at grammar, and i dont apologise for it 😂

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Re: Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

not me! i dont judge im on DSP. I dont think recovery is linear so i fully embrace peer workers who dip sometimes!

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Thank you so much @AuntGlow. I am excited to once again used my lived and living experience to help others towards recovery as it does help a lot with my own recovery journey too! I also look forward to learning more about the forum and the people here and truly respect and acknowledge your experience too! 🙂

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Re: Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂


@YoshisEgg wrote:

Howdy.

Im Yoshis Egg. I get shit out and reborn on an infinate time loop. I am also great at catching annoying things with my tongue. I am dinosaur. The green variety. I am here because I have been driven to a sort of maddness by rainbow road

for real though, Im here to try out different forms of help, and learn with designs on doing peer work sometime. While i navigate Bipolar, C-PTSD, DID and probable ADHD. I am bad at grammar, and i dont apologise for it 😂


hahah I love this! @YoshisEgg

You are very much in the right place here, my friend. Here to yap whenever you need - feel free to start your own thread too.

Never apologise. 💅

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