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Hi there, I thought I should introduce myself!

Lici — Wed, 02 May 2018 17:06:13 GMT

Hi All,

My name is Lici and I'm currently studying psychology and creative writing at uni.

I stumbled across this forum after being diagnosed with GAD and was looking for help due to some confusion. I have struggled with depression since childhood as well as PTSD after a traumatic event in my 20s.

I hope to be able to contribute to this forum and help people as much as I can in the future, it seems like a really great place!

Anyway, that's about it really, I just thought I'd introduce myself with a bit of background. Feel free to say hi when you see me about the forums or to ask any questions. I'm always willing to share my experiences in the hopes of helping.

Thanks for reading 🙂

Lici

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CoffeeSnob — Thu, 03 May 2018 01:06:18 GMT

Hi Lici,

I'm a newbie too. Welcome.

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james1 — Thu, 03 May 2018 01:11:11 GMT

Hello Lici and CoffeeSnob,

Welcome to the forums! I see you both have already made some posts. I'll keep an eye out.

I hope you guys can find what you need here. There are so many people with many different experiences yet all sharing a common understanding of what it's like to have mental health issues, so it's great to have you two here too.

James

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Peppermintbach — Thu, 03 May 2018 01:39:56 GMT

Hi Lici,

I remember your name from another thread and wanted to say hello 🙂

Here is another cheerful welcome to you.

You have certainly struggled for some time. Things must have been (be) hard for a while. It’s lovely to have you here.

Looking forward to hopefully seeing you around the forums.

Pepper xo

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Ggrand — Thu, 03 May 2018 01:43:42 GMT

Hello living,

Waves to CoffeeSnob and James1 👋..I hope you are all okay today xx.

I would also like to welcome you to the BB Forums.

I hope you get as much comfort, help and guidance and meet some of the wonderful people as I have..

There are so many different threads here that relate to just about all aspects of mh..

Looking forward to seeing you around the forums and here.

Kind and caring thoughts,

Grandy

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Lici — Thu, 03 May 2018 02:24:35 GMT

Hi CoffeeSnob, welcome to the forum too 🙂 you sound like a person after my own heart... coffee is my life! I swear I wouldn't be able to get through uni without it!

Hi James! A lot of my posts are in the anxiety section. I think this forum is really great. I wish it was around when I was a teenager! It would have made a huge difference! I'm really glad it exists for people now. Mental illness can be so isolating, having somewhere like this to be able to speak to people who know what it's like is so hugely important.

Hi Pepper! Your thread has me started now haha I could talk about the benefits of photography all day! I've been through many tough times throughout life but I'm kind of grateful for them now, it's going to help me be a better psychologist (when I finally finish studies!)

Hi Grady! Thanks for the welcome! I'm sure that I'll find all the guidance etc I need here, this place has so much to offer! I hope that I can offer as much as I get from it!

Thanks for all the warm welcomes everyone, I hope you all have a fantastic day!

Lici

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Tams20 — Thu, 03 May 2018 03:48:15 GMT

Hi Lici,

Welcome to the forums. I’ve already seen you in the Facebook thread, offering some useful advice - I have already taken some of your suggestions on board and I now feel much better equipped to navigate my Facebook feed - on my terms. Thanks!

Hope to see you around!

Tams

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Lici — Thu, 03 May 2018 04:03:22 GMT

Hi Tams!

I'm so glad that my Facebook advice has helped! It really does change things once you start taking control on there. I remember the first time I deleted some of the negative people I had on my friendslist. I was so nervous and anxious about what they would think and if they'd message me etc. But the ones that did I just blocked and *poof* negativity gone.

They also have a snooze feature now so anyone that I'm not sure I want to delete (such as family friends that I'll see in real life), but who constantly post negative things that bring me down, I'll snooze for 30 days. The best thing is the person you're snoozing doesn't get notified (the same when you're deleting or unfollowing someone). It really changes facebook when you take control of it. 🙂

I really am so glad to read that something I've written has helped someone! Feel free to comment in any of my threads if you ever want to chat 🙂

Kind regards,

Lici

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Tams20 — Fri, 04 May 2018 00:02:18 GMT

Hi Lici,

Yep - friends culled, notifications turned off, pages unliked, annoying friends ‘snoozed’ - it’s all on my terms now! I’ve been on a few times since cleaning it up and it’s all good so far.

Thanks for your help! I hope to be able to return the favour at some point in the future 😊

Tams

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Peppermintbach — Fri, 04 May 2018 01:50:24 GMT

Hi Lici,

It’s wonderful to hear from you again 🙂

I think you will make a compassionate and insightful psychologist. What a beautiful goal to aspire to...

Feel free to talk about photography any time. Your whole tone becomes lighter and more cheerful when you talk about it.

Pepper xo

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Lici — Fri, 04 May 2018 02:26:31 GMT

Hi Tams,

Another tip to make Facebook better is to join groups for hobbies and things you're interested in. I did this with photography and writing groups/pages. Now my Facebook is full of awesome pictures and funny memes about writing etc. I also followed some science and psychology/neuroscience pages and have some interesting articles pop up about current research into depression etc too. It becomes a much more positive place!

Hi Pepper,

Thanks for your kind words 🙂 wanting to become a psychologist was a bit of an accident. I was studying marketing and found I was drawn to the psychology side of it, thought I'd try and study it at uni to see if it held my interest and then it went from there. I never knew there was so many different parts to psychology. It's such an interesting thing to study. I think having experience in mental illness is really going to help. I know there's been many times when I've thought the psychologist had no idea. I'm hoping that the people I help will never have to feel that way!

With photography, I'm very passionate about it. I haven't had a hobby like that for a long time. My profile picture is an example of my bird photography. Then I've taken landscape pictures, waterfall pictures, mushroom pictures, milky way pictures, sunset pictures, the list goes on. There's something special about looking through the viewfinder and really noticing the things around you. I found that with birds, there were places that I had been to many times and never noticed them, yet when I went there specifically for bird photography there were so many around! As humans we miss so much around us because our brains block out what it deems as unimportant.

I hope Grandy reads this again, I realised I misspelt their name twice! How embarrassing! Sorry Grandy!

Anyway I hope everyone has a great day!

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startingnew — Fri, 04 May 2018 03:00:43 GMT

Hi Lici i just wanted to stop in, say hello and welcome you to BB. ive seen some of your posts and think your write really well.

creative writing and photography are 2 things i really like to do to.i havent done either of those for a little while though. what sorts of creative writing do you like to do? and what are some of your favourite things to photograph?

again welcome 🙂

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quirkywords — Fri, 04 May 2018 03:07:33 GMT

Lici

I noticed you my Words thread, so thought I also say hello and welcome.

It is always interesting to find out how people find the forum.

Keep writing

Quirky

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Lici — Fri, 04 May 2018 03:44:34 GMT

Hi startingnew 🙂

Thanks for the compliment, it means a lot hearing that I'm a good writer, I'm always stressing about my writing when it comes to assignments so it really helps hearing that!

Hi quirky!

I actually found the forum through a Google search. I'm glad I found it!

I hope everyone had a great day!

Lici

To answer your questions, I love writing fiction. My favourite assignment pieces have been the horror story I wrote and the sci-fi assignment (my highest grade was for my romance though) I also found it really interesting to write a historical fiction, I wrote a story set in the Flinders Ranges in the 1860s during a really bad drought and part of that was doing research into the time period and place etc. It was really eye opening!

For photography, at the moment I love bird photography (my avatar/ display picture is a photo I took a month or so ago). Coming into the cooler months I'll take some mushroom photography and milky way pictures etc. I try to try out different subjects so I'm always learning new things with my camera.

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Lici — Fri, 04 May 2018 04:07:11 GMT

Wow that last post got messed up! Sorry for the jumbled mess!

I guess that's what happens when you post just after waking up lol

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startingnew — Fri, 04 May 2018 04:39:03 GMT

Hi Lici

wow you have a wide range of style writing! as long as it brings you joy ot doesnt really matter the genre 🙂

heres a site called open2study. they actually offer a free photography skills course- maybe that would be something tht would interest you? it only goes for like 6 weeks or something and its all online through watching videos each with a quiz at the end. a cert of achievement comes with it.

hows your day treating you?

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Lici — Fri, 04 May 2018 04:54:26 GMT

Hi startingnew,

Most of those genre's have been because of study, I want to turn the sci-fi short story into a novel though. It's set in a world where people can talk to animals through an augmentation chip in their brains. It's a dystopian story about a girl and her cat who are being chased by the government. There's still a lot to flesh out in the way of plot but I'll have time to do it one day!

My day is going ok so far. I'm currently in the waiting room of my new GP. I also received my exam timetable yesterday and the thought of exams gets my anxiety going. I hate exams! Hopefully things will go well with the gp and I'll have a more productive day than yesterday!

How's your day going?

Lici

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Lici — Fri, 04 May 2018 04:59:38 GMT

Oh I totally forgot to answer about the photography course! Sorry! It's definitely something I'm interested in and I'll definitely look it up during mid year break!

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startingnew — Fri, 04 May 2018 05:42:33 GMT

Hi Lici

i hope your gp appt goes well for you.

oh that sounds like a rather interesting story- maybe over the yrs youll be able to transofrm it into a novel.

urgh im not a fan of exams either. i thought about studying again, its something i do enjoy but havent had the time or mental capacity to since last yr when i completed a basic course. sure 🙂 take a look when your ready, its always avaliable there so no rush or pressure.

im trying to keep myself balanced with so much happening offline but todays been a rest day- the first in months so has been ok but ive been pretty sick so resting is a must.

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Lici — Fri, 04 May 2018 06:01:10 GMT

Hi startingnew,

My gp appointment went really well. This gp is definitely a keeper! He is really interested in psychology and mental health and has studied it a lot. He also knew one of my lecturers which really made me feel like he knows what he's talking about!

Studying is definitely something that you need the mental capacity for! Especially uni, there's just so much information to take in all at once, then there's having 4 topics at the same time and all the lectures and assignments and exams that go along with them. I honestly get overwhelmed sometimes and constantly question if I can keep going. I'm really stubborn though so I won't let myself give up! Plus I keep thinking about how great it will be to actually become a psychologist and show the people in my past who told me I'd never amount to anything just how wrong they were (even if they'll never actually find out, the thought is enough).

Rest days are super important! I'm glad you're taking one, especially if you've been sick lately! I hope you feel better soon!