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@Shaz51 wrote:

My morning reading has decreased due to the increased insulin

See the kidney specialist next week

@tyme , @Jynx

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Morning reading.... sorry my brain takes things so literally do you mean reading a book or like taking a reading of your blood sugar? 😅

But all the best with the specialist anyway hun, I hope it's good news 🤞

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@tyme wrote:

Powerful image @Spirit_Healer

I don't know where i read or heard this, but something to do with: when you look up at the horizon, your body secretes hormones to help you feel better. So whenever I go for a walk, I always look up at the horizon.

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Whaaaaat I am so into this, I don't care if it doesn't have science to back it up, I'll believe it and make it true for myself anyway! 😍

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@Till23 wrote:

Oh @Jynx you're on fire, mind you don't burn yourself 🤣

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Don't encourage me lol I WILL explode with puns, I mean I'm always burning to make em, and you may not wanna fan those flames... 😝🔥

@Till23 , you can be a community guide like me 😊

@tyme

Ohhhh 🤣😂 @Jynx

I just did my night time blood sugar test and it is a high 15

volunteer roles in the future @tyme

Totally @Shaz51 . @Till23 . CGs have been sidelined a bit, but I'm following up all the time.

We have having two new subforums open up soon and part of these spaces is to have specific volunteers in them.

SANE is moving moving moving. There's so much happening in the background!

Wonderful @tyme

I was going to write in the CG'S thread

I feel like a broken record when I talk about CGs @Shaz51 .

Sorry to keep everyone waiting.

That would be good @tyme - thanks

Also I think @RachSANECEO tagged you in "Mental health policies explained" thread. I'd definitely be interested in that kind of advocacy type work for MH.

I have run City to Surf in Sydney for Beyond Blue and walked 100km for Black Dog Institute as a fundraisers.

All my other fundraising has been for cancer organisations. And that is my next fundraising project.

But I really want to do something meaningful for MH. The differences between physical illnesses and MH issues in funding, awareness, public acceptability, news articles etc is immense and the disparity is enormous. For example, 1 in 7 women will get breast cancer in their lifetimes, 1 in 4 people will have a MH episode. Heaps of awareness, funding etc for breast cancer very little for MH. I received more care for my breast cancers, virtually all for free compared to 50 odd years of living with complex trauma virtually all of which I've paid for myself, so of course I am over 60 still experiencing mental ill health. In fact the only free MH assistance I received was psycho-oncology because I had cancer. The treatment exacerbated my cPTSD enormously but I only had 8 free sessions because I had cancer.

Another difference is that I had 20 sessions of radiotherapy for each of my cancers at no cost to me, I get 10 psychology session subsidised by Medicare per year for MH. How acceptable would it be to the general public, if you only got 10 radiotherapy sessions for free and you had to pay the rest yourself? Why is MH treated differently to physical illnesses?

That's OK @tyme , there is soo much happening here on the forum xx

@Till23 , seeing you supporting others here on the forum , being a CG will be a breeze 😍

Yes. Nothing is ever stagnant here @Shaz51 !

@Till23 . You've made some really valid points there about the 10 sessions and the rest you've had to pay for yourself. It's as though you need to 'see' the illness to get help...

I guess I've been a lucky one because pretty much all my supports for complex mental health were pretty much free. The only ones I paid for were/are any maintenance sessions I might want to have. But the bulk of the support was through the public MH system. That's years of therapy, treatment, case management, peer support, psychosocial support etc.