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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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Hi,

Hope everyone is well, I have been on forums before under a different name. I wasn't going to return but some of my support team has dropped out so I'm back. Not going to reveal the name I used to be under. For those of who I used to talk to regularly (not mentioning who) if you come to realise what my old name was please keep it to yourself. Anyway hi 👋

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Ps @moderator, the somethings not right button doesn't work I get this

 

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Re: Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Heeeyyy @Twilightsomniac 😀👋❤

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Hi @Shaz51,

I hope you are well been going through catching up on things since I left, sorry to hear you lost your house. I'm glad some of the ogs like you and @Bunniekins are still around. You and greenpea were the first to talk to me last time I was here on forums.

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Lovely to see you again @Twilightsomniac

How are you going

Have missed you

I will tag @Bunniekins

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I'm ok @Shaz51 just disappointed that after all the hoops my dr and I jumped through to get support from ndis and bluecare they both pulled out last minute saying I should get on the disability pension first. I've been trying to do that half my life and constantly get declined with intense mental health diagnoses while my mother got it for just anxiety 🙃. Anyway we are going to try the process again starting with a full psych analysis in three weeks so I don't know maybe 16th time's the charm and centrelink might let me utilise their services like they should have when I was 15 and first diagnosed.

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Did they say why you were declined, any reasons @Twilightsomniac

Have to show that it is going to get worse in the next 2 years

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@Shaz51,

It was had to have evidence that it would not improve in 2years is what we get told and between psych, Dr and hospital letters/reports I had heaps of that but still got knocked back. And they never tell me why they declined/reject it. Even when I ask.

And with multiple downward spirals the last few months, the inability to find medication that works and the loss of what would have been really good support my dr and psych are surprised I function enough to take care of myself let alone my son.

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Ohhh sending you lots of hugs and got my fingers crossed for you @Twilightsomniac

Have you had a look around the forum xx

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Thanks @Shaz51,

Yeah a little bit. Few things the same quite a lot of change but managing to work may way around except for the somethings wrong forum button not working but have read that it's a reoccurring issue

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