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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 @mulgabill

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Hi @mulgabill

I love your user name. The first thing I thought of was Banjo Patterson.

Hope you are doin ok?

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Hi thanks, going ok & hope you are too, just thought try this see how it goes. Like it so far.

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Thought try this so far I like

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Hello. I’m a high functioning schizophrenic who is looking for similar minded individuals to relate insights into the condition and what works best. Love peace and happiness.

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Hello all thanks for having me. I was dx'd with my first mental illness at age 5, I am now 49! I am largely functioning in the community but like many of you I suffer greatly. I have a young family and I am working full time and sometimes I pick up the odd post grad unit to chew over. I am tired...and mostly scared.

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Hello @mulgabill good to read your message. I'm glad you are enjoying the forums so far.

Welcome to the forums @HappyRhodes !

Welcome @SMJ73 hope you are ok.

I hope you all enjoy being a part of this community.

I will pop a link to a list of social spaces.

Social spaces

Thankyou !!

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Ashby🙂

Hello everyone thank you for letting me join.

I have c-ptsd from childhood trauma and later long term Domestic Violence.

Had some therapy about 4 weeks ago for the DV and still trying to work through it, was hard realising how bad it was as due to survival mode I minimized it.

Have not said to much as dont want to traumatise anyone.

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Hello @Ashby

Welcome to the forums😊

I will likely be seeking DV counselling. I am interested in your experience, only if you feel comfortable to share.

So far, I been involved with services & been given information - not ongoing intensive counselling.

I could relate when you wrote

hard realising how bad it was as due to survival mode I minimized it.

i didn't realise the 'survival mode' until I read your comment. Yes, that describes it perfectly.

It's lots of information to take in isn't it? Easier to not look.

How are you going?

maddison

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