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Friends, families and carers

Welcome to the Friends, Family and Carers Group Hub! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Welcome to the Friends, Family and Carers Group Hub! Introduce yourself here 🙂

New here? Welcome to the SANE Friends, Family and Carers Forums! We are so happy you found us and have joined our wonderful community. There are lots of people here like you who are supporting a family member, friend or loved one, and who can understand what you might be going through and offer valuable peer support.

You may see people reaching out to share their stories, asking questions, 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!

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 to the Friends, Family and Carers Group Hub! Introduce yourself here 🙂

@LunaLoo aww and i love the lil fun fact!

for your daughter- has she reached out to headspace before? they have free 1-on-1 clinician chats that she might be able to access?

the forums is a great space to connect too, i'm going to tag you in a few other social circles too so you can meet some other members 😊

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Re: Welcome to the Friends, Family and Carers Group Hub! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Thank you! She hasn't been very proactive so far on reaching out for support calls, but I'm gonna encourage her a bit more on that one.

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Re: Welcome to the Friends, Family and Carers Group Hub! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Thank you!

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Re: Welcome to the Friends, Family and Carers Group Hub! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Hi! I’m S 🙂


Im new here - I’m glad I found this community. I’ve taken on a big responsibility so I’m looking for support on how to support my brother. I love photography and music.

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Hello ☺️ and welcome @BigSisterS

How are you today

@tyme , @AuntGlow

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Re: Welcome to the Friends, Family and Carers Group Hub! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Welcome @BigSisterS ! Great to have you with us!

I hear you've taken on a big responsiblity. Anything in particular you are concerned about?

Photography sounds so satisfying and fulfilling 🙂

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Re: Welcome to the Friends, Family and Carers Group Hub! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Good thank you @Shaz51 💕

What's on for tonight?

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Re: Welcome to the Friends, Family and Carers Group Hub! Introduce yourself here 🙂

What kind of Photography do you like @BigSisterS

What question of support would you like to ask xx

@tyme

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Re: Welcome to the Friends, Family and Carers Group Hub! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Hi y'all .....

@Shaz51 @Daisydreamer @AuntGlow @tyme @BigSisterS

So .... It's cold here in Western Australia. I'm trying not to eat after 6 pm....

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It seems to make you hungrier....

Ide like to see the photography @Shaz51 oh.... Just a sec...

@BigSisterS 😼

@Shaz51 sorry about that - I got a new dog a couple of months ago

Here he is he's called Peanut ...

 

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Re: Welcome to the Friends, Family and Carers Group Hub! Introduce yourself here 🙂

Hi everyone, thanks for the welcome 🤍

I’m 31 and my partner and I are supporting my 23 year old brother who recently moved here from NZ. We had very different upbringings - I was raised by our grandparents, and he was raised by our mum, who didn’t have the tools to support him properly. He’s had a tough time since he was 14, with trauma, a few concussions in school, and some substance abuse with weed that didn’t help his mental health..

He’s experienced multiple episodes of psychosis over the past few years, and now hears voices daily. The symptoms have become more consistent and intense - things like paranoia, thought broadcasting, belief that people can read or manipulate his thoughts, and really intense auditory hallucinations. From everything we’ve read together, it seems likely this could be schizophrenia or a related psychotic disorder. But we understand he needs proper assessment and diagnosis, not assumptions.

He is very self aware, wants help, and is trying. But he also masks extremely well and may not communicate the full severity of what he’s experiencing especially the delusions and voices, which are constant and exhausting.

I’m helping him stabilise day to day with routine, sleep, nutrition, and support. We’re just hoping this GP appointment can lead to a clear mental health care pathway, formal assessment, diagnosis, and the right medication and support, he’s has meds in the past and its helped but he’s in a different head space he knows he’s unwell. He’s motivated but can be worn down by the constant intense voices so I’m helping him as much as possible - we just don’t want him to slip through the cracks again…

any advice on what to say to the GP? The right language to use.


any in person support groups you recommend? Do they exist?

he will eventually need to live in a flat share situation, he has 7-8 weeks with us as we pet sit full time and won’t have accom for him. Any recommendations how to go about this? Any flats shares that would work with someone like my brother.

Thanks again, this space has already helped a lot. I love portrait photography but I work in food photography full time - creativity has been a good outlet for me for years. 🙂 I will get used to these forums. This set up confuses me as it’s new.

@Shaz51 @tyme

@AuntGlow @FloatingFeather

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