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I thought I'd start a discussion where we can check in with members and use this space to keep in contact. It's a space to be able to say how you really feel and it's a space for the good, the bad and the ugly moments in our lives.
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Zoe7Senior Contributor
@Teej @CheerBear @Queenie @Mazarita a little brightness for your day...
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
Good to hear from you today, @Queenie. Really glad you are in a good place for the time being, and are learning new things for managing your mental health. Practising acceptance and focussing on strengths you do have is a good approach to life for any of us. At the same time I find it amazing that you are continuing to achieve study goals while you are in there! Hope things settle with the manic feelings soon and that you are able to sleep and relax. 
@Zoe7, thanks for the tag and the flowers. Hope Friday night and the weekend treats you well.
@Teej, @CheerBear, sending some of these your way too.
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
Thinking of you too @TheVorticon .... are you keeping busy ?
It was lovely to read your post @Queenie .... lovely in hearing that you are working on acceptance, both of low outside communication, and working with the conditions and nature of your mi challenges. So well done on your studies ❣️ It is inspiring. I am loving my course, and it sounds like you are too, despite the hardships. I love that you are studying in the mental health field.
@Teej.... well done on battling that dragon within. Your therapist is so lovely, giving you her father’s tree to use .... I was going to mention to you and @CheerBear that I have collected some sticks for a big vase, but any container will do. I don’t have them here. They are in the-home-I-have-left-behind ....
I attach things to the sticks, often seasonally .... anything that pleases my heart, weather it’s a found feather, or something someone has sent or given to me ..... gift-wrapping ribbon often, and cards. I am not setting up a Christmas tree here this year because we are going away, but there will be a few days that I will be here without my family (they are all heading back west ahead of me) and I have decided to go collecting sticks ..... I will put something Christmas on them, even if it’s collagen decorations from junk mail .... in fact I think that is exactly what I will do. I will try to find some woven-paper decoration ideas and post them to the art thread for anyone to give them a go ....
You have inspired me .... ❤️
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TheVorticonSenior Contributor
Thanks @CheerBear and @Faith-and-Hope.
I'm doing mostly ok. I've just been really tired and not getting enough sleep through the week which has made things tough.
How are you both doing?
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
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TheVorticonSenior Contributor
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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.
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