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@Former-Member can we talk

Hey there @twilightcs 🙂🌺

I can chat here with you if that’s helpful? I’m a part of the SANE Peer Guide volunteer community, where we provide peer support online 🙂

Otherwise, if you’d like to speak with SANE’s phone support team, where we have our trained staff (mental health professionals and volunteers) available here (please do scroll down and there are a variety of support options with SANE to choose from): SANE Support Services

I hope this is helpful?
Please do feel free to continue to chat on the Forum if you feel comfortable to do so 🙂

Sitting with you, PinkFlamingo 🌺

@Bon_courage

@PizzaMondo

That’s a question that many of us are challenged with @twilightcs 🌺 and we are here to support each other 🙂

I have a couple of resources to start off with: Managing Anxiety Tips

..this has some tips to recognising and managing anxiety, and I also gently include some help with coping with traumatic events, which I hope is also helpful, here: Help for Trauma

I’ll also search on what our members have discussed here on the forums, and if I find something helpful I’ll pop it in the chat for you 🙂🌺

But before I do that, I wanted to kindly let you know that I manage anxiety (which isn’t always easy and doesn’t always work - but that’s the nature of distress; sometimes it’s worse than other times when it’s a little easier to manage) with doing an activity that gets my mind thinking about something else - I’ll cook, write, go for a drive, and really focus on putting myself into that different task. If I can’t help the anxiety, I try to reach out to someone, or call a service to help talk through what’s happening so I can make sense of things and feel more in control of how I am feeling 🌺🙂

I also try to be organised (not so good at that lately!) so I don’t have things piling up: I try to plan and pace my days so they don’t become overwhelming 💜🙂

Go gently, and I’ll get back to this thread once I’ve had a look around 🌺

PinkFlamingo

Been through a lot of medical ( melanoma ) on my face in and out of hospital and other issues. Dealing with financial issues am now finding I get panic attacks and feeling lonlu

Hey @ARTY Welcome to the forums. Thank you for being here 😊

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Hi there @twilightcs 🙂

My apologies for the delay, I was looking around for a thread about managing anxiety:

What do you do to get anxiety to a manageable level

Its our members discussing what they do to help manage anxiety, so I thought I would add it here in case it might be helpful for you 🙂🌺

Hi there @ARTY 🙂

Welcome to the Forums 🙂🌺

Im PinkFlamingo, a Peer Guide volunteer on the Forums.

Im sorry to hear what you have been going through; it sounds like there's a lot on your plate.

I also live with medical conditions, and I can relate to being in and out of hospital over the years.

Having to face these issues as well as dealing with financial and emotional concerns is not easy, and I was wondering if this site might be helpful? This is financial support services from The Australian Financial Security Authority.

Having panic attacks and feeling lonely is also very difficult, and something that can really impact on us: that is what our forums are for - to bring a community of understanding to you...feel free to reach out using '@' to tag us here on the forum 🙂

Or, feel free to contact one of SANE Support Services if you'd like to 🌺

Take good care, and it'll be great to chat with you sometime in the future

PinkFlamingo

Hello Pink Flamingo,

Thanks for your concern and reply.

My Financial issues are not such a problem but a bit scary.

Taken out a reverse mortgage to finance re structure of yards beyond my capabilities these days. Trying to get gardening through age care has gone down to 1 hr per fortnight. The Agency can't hold staff, and no one else seem to take it on other than Private, but too expensive on Pension...My health as in strength, sight, cataract to be removed and needing hearing aids, including other health issues, all making me very depressed. The one thing that helps me is going back to my painting, which I have not done in years. Struggling to get back to where I was.

My Doctor told me to try find a Pen Pal Forum... So I have have achieved that at least.

Hey @ARTY just letting you know you can use the @ sign to tag people so they get a notification that you've messaged them. @Former-Member 😊