New Member, Is anyone else still on here?

Hi @BandS338 and welcome to the forum 🙂

There are lots of people around the forum, many who experience depression, anxiety and panic. Overnight the posts here can slow down a little but during the day and into the evening you may find more people around.

It's really great to hear you have been getting better over the year. What type of things do you find have helped you with that? I live with anxiety and depression as part of my mental health challenges and find I have lots of ups and downs with it all. It's an ongoing journey for me.

If you'd like to you can use the search function to find existing threads on topics like anxiety, depression and panic and have a read or join in. You might also like to head over to the good morning thread where there may be people coming by as the day starts. One tip I was given that helped when I joined was to use the @ symbol in front of a member's name to tag them.

Looking forward to seeing you around 🙂

@CheerBear - Thanks

Hi @BandS338 and welcome to the Sane forums.

There are plenty of fellow members here who will be able to relate to you and what you are going through.

Good on you for reaching out. I'm sorry you are struggling with depression, anxiety and panic attacks. But very heartened to hear that things have improved considerably. Would you like to share how you have managed to overcome the worst of those side effects? For example are you seeing a therapist, taking medication, or doing a lot of self-help natural methods to help overcome your symptoms? I'm interested in hearing more from you about how you cope. I too suffer all of those same things you do. For me the anxiety and depression are sparked by my long-standing PTSD.

Certainly you will receive much understanding and empathy from the members here. I'm glad you're here too, and hope you find benefit from connecting with others here, as I have.

Sherry

Hi @BandS338 I echo what others have written here also and welcome you to the forum.

There are definitely busier times during the day and night where you will be able to connect with other members who are dealing with simiar issues. I am currently battling depression, CPTSD and anxiety - some days are harder than others but none are easy. I have come a long way in my journey but there is still a huge road ahead of me and it is with the wonderful support of this community from the forum that I have been able to battle thriugh some really tough times. I hope you find the same support and can connect with people that also know what you are dealing with - it does make a world of difference.

Feel free to tag me at any stage if you have any questions or just need to chat and I will do what I can to answer you.

You might also want to post a little more about yourself in the Introduce Yourself thread here - that way we can get to know you a little and it is a thread that is visitied by more people.

Hello and welcome @BandS338.

I have major depressive order, mild anxiety and i used to have PTSD & panic attacks. I don't have these last 2 any more due to EMDR Therapy. I miggt have one panic attack a year - compared to multipke attacks weekly before I got treatment.

Yes it's true. There aren't very many new posts on the forum. Some people like to read posts but stay in the background. Others have had posts for a while, so we know where to find them. There is no right/wrong way. But I'm glad you decided to post here.

Feel free to share as much or as little as you are comfortable with. There is no judgement on this site and we are all 'anonymous'.

I hope to speak with you soon

Good evening @BandS338, @utopia, @outlander, @Zoe7, @MDT, @CheerBear

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