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Big Blue Table - Right here on the Forums!

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Hello to our wonderful forums community! We have decided to run an ongoing Big Blue Table thread ‘Forums Edition’ until the end of October! What is a Big Blue Table? Big Blue Table is Beyond Blue's signature event held during October, Mental Health Month. Big Blue Table encourages people host a meal with their friends, family or colleagues while fighting the stigma that surrounds mental health. So why are we running one here? The reason we are doing this is so people have an opportunity to connect with others and have the experience of sharing their thoughts and feelings over a meal, no matter where they are in Australia. We know Mental Health Month can be a vulnerable time for many and believe this thread could be a safe space for people to be heard and learn from others’ experiences. Our community champions will be here to support you along the way, and our moderation team will be around to answer any questions you may have, as well as to ensure the thread remains respectful and safe for everyone. We encourage you to choose from the following questions to start a conversation: What do you do to look after your mental health? Are you comfortable sharing your feelings and emotions? If not, why? What are you passionate about, and why? Who would be your dream Big Blue Table guest, and why? After you have shared your answers, we would love to hear about what you are eating or bringing to the table. You can even tell us a little bit about your setup and what you can see around you to really immerse us into your world. This is your opportunity to be as creative as you’d like! But remember, there is no pressure or ‘right’ response, whatever you bring to the table will be more than enough. We hope this thread allows you to feel connected, supported, and a part of the Big Blue Table initiative. Now… get cooking!

Welcome to the BB Social Zone - guidelines for posting in this section

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Hi everyone, This section of the forum is a little different to the others, as you may have noticed in looking around the threads. Elsewhere on the forums, we discuss some pretty heavy topics: mental health issues, thoughts of suicide, trauma, abuse, relationship breakdowns. Here is the place to come to get away from that and have a bit of fun. Distraction can be an important tool to draw on if you're finding yourself overwhelmed by distressing thoughts and feelings. As this is a section for respite from difficult topics, we will remove posts made in this section that attempt to discuss personal issues. Please use a support thread in the appropriate section for these discussions. Happy posting!

The BB cafe

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The BB cafe is open for business! Welcome all to a new chill and chat place for everyone on the forum. The BB cafe is whatever you want it to be. There are comfy sofas, tables and chairs, coffee machines, a kitchen stocked with everything. There's a pool outside, a bbq area, an annexe with comfy beds for a quiet sleep, tv, dvd, books and whatever else you would like to have here. Most of all, it's a place to meet friends and fellow travellers for a bit of company. Talk over problems, tell jokes, share your day, escape into a world of your making. Grab a coffee and pull up a chair ... So, with a nod to the wonderful Carole King (Hard Rock Cafe) ... Now if you're feeling just a little bit lonely Don't sit at home just mopin' Come on down to where the friendship flows freely You know the door is always open At the BB cafe Come to the BB cafe They will help keep your blues at bay At the BB cafe Important Message from ModSupport: The main intention of the BB Cafe is to encourage light conversation. Please look after your fellow community members by nuturing the BB Cafe as a place to escape some of the more pressing issues in life and save those conversations for personal threads.

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Who do you want to meet?

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Just trying to talk about something positive! who do you wanna meet and why? what makes them so special to you! if i could meet anyone in the world it would be...... Sarah Stevenson(Sarahs_day, a youtube)- i would just love to tell her how much she has helped me personally. let her know that she is helping others, making a difference. i would ask her questions such as: how did you become so successful and do you have any tips? what are your thoughts on life and how the world works? what are your morals and why do you chose to live by them? i would love to sit down and talk with her for hours and hours. i think she would be an amazing person to meet!

overseas scams

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Hi there. Pipsy here. Just been hit with a scam from somewhere overseas. Just after new year I received on fb, a lovely post from a guy (he said he was from Brooklyn U.S.A), claiming he'd seen my 'beautiful' face and wanted to 'get to know me'. The amount of rubbish that followed was unbelievable. We chatted for a while via fb, he asked for my email, which I (foolishly) let him have. He's never contacted me via email. anyway, after chatting for a couple of hours, next time he contacted me, there was a proposal. he claimed to be a minister with a Pentecostal church. I'm separated and I know from a friend of mine that widows are allowed to remarry, but divorcees are not, under Pentecostal. He informed me he was going to Amsterdam for a 'huge' work project, then retiring. Then came the 'bite', on reaching Amsterdam (supposedly), I get an 'urgent' message via fb, 'in trouble, financially, can you send money?'. I had already told this person, I had no money, he initially said, 'money isn't everything, I love you regardless'. He pushed and pushed for money, even told me how I could send money via money gram. Then I get another 'urgent' message, 'been kicked out of hotel because I couldn't pay'. He claimed he'd told the hotel management his 'wife', me was going to send money. He claims he's now back in the states and blames me for not being willing to help him. I had a 'go' at him, told him if he knew he was going to Amsterdam as claimed, the money should've been sorted before he left the states. He's abused me, told me I was selfish, told me I'd never find true' love etc. I actually find the whole thing quite amusing, but my point is, there are people out there who are lonely, vulnerable, depressed. If you are contacted like I was - ignore, please. These people are heartless, they tell you what you think you want to hear, particularly if you're coming out of a separation/divorce, feeling low because spouse has left you. Or you could be widowed, feeling lonely. They are schooled to make you feel guilty if you don't send money. The more you send, the more they want. When you're 'bled dry', you'll never hear from or 'see' them again. Because of the pressure from this 'so-called' lover, I actually finished up in hospital suffering high blood pressure. I live alone, on Centrelink Newstart. I had told him right from the start I had no money.

Respectee of Mental Health

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Hi communitee, I would like to thank you for all that you do as members and Australian battlers, you guys are heaven on the stage this planet is on, cant wait for next level. i am an injured worker on the current work cover system. I lost everything i ever beleived inn, my home, family, Structure, confidence, and above all the person i beleived i was. My anger for selfish people become To a point i cracked, i beleive in honest decency. And won't stop untill it is rectified through ethical Conduct of professional you wanna give a dam, and through a facebook page i created expossing indecent respect in a category of Terrible, through this application of effort to save people from People creating suicide through another persons selfish profit ideas, i attempted 76 times, Through personal secrecy, finding myself loosing, 19 kgs i wish for, no-one to live an amount of sadness as i felt, so for the 5% of people that experience solid concrete thoughts on inability to think of any more days ahead even doable to approach. I stand for you, and Only you, to pursue respect in life let alone health. My heart is yours and i have placed myself purposly, As the future is one thing i am personllay deficated too, not allowing a single person to loose there life on work cover. Through my position as a kitchenhand living in my car, i sold everything for a diploma I am scored 91% mark highest male this 36 months in youth work starting into my personal professional support into a majors in counciling. As youth sensitive aoproach is needed into a mediation company that ministers and monitors injured workers and places there physical and mental health, first and governs, regulates selfishly controlled employees. I have been placed in i beleive The worst corruption of work cover applied support, yet they believe money buys document's, power and legal position. I dare challenge that completly. As i know law to the fine line. I serve to protect and support suicide and the stigma against it, to gain that it wont be advertising in the begining yet inteligently place numbers and support to show life is Beautiful i have many letters im going to show... To express my position and understanding of pain..

A chat for thespians....BUT ALL WELCOME!

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G'day, Anyone got some great musicals to listen to? What are some of your favorite musicals? Have you ever seen a broadway show?

Mental illness songs? (Metallica fans?)

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Do you have a song list or particular artist that reflected the way you feel? I grew up on The Police and Sting. So many songs to relate to loneliness, isolation, failure, regret and depression. Was the soundtrack to my clinically depressed adolescence. I remember even as an under 12, with childhood depression, picking the inherent sadness out of ABBA songs, which of course is why they used ABBA for the soundtrack to Muriel's Wedding, a movie about escaping toxic parents/childhood and finding the positive and making the best of life regardless of the limited resources you have. As my anger grew during teen years, my appetite for heavier music grew, although I initially loathed it. Guns N Roses channelled my anger out, my first heavy band. Specific songs I relate totally through mental illness - Dirty Creature - Split Enz (paranoia, anxiety, depression) Metallica - a true mental illness sufferers band Ride the Lightning Fade to Black (depression, emptiness and suicidal ideation) Master of Puppets (substance addiction) Sanitarium (committed to mental asylum) ...and Justice for All Harvester of Sorrow (regret, hatred and desire for revenge) Frayed ends of sanity (tick every mental illness box) Dyers Eve (reflecting on psychological abuse by parents and its crippling effect on your life) Sad but true (your inner tormenting voice who is actually always there for you, your best friend, whether you like them or not) The Unforgiven (resentment of lifelong manipulation by others in power of your destiny) The God that failed (reflecting on parental abuse through religious extremism) The Struggle Within/My friend of Misery (people who unrelentingly cling to their victimhood rather than getting on with their lives) Load Ain't my - (putting up with people who will drag you down) 2x4 (the desire for revenge) House that Jack built (the temporary escape but downside of substance abuse in escaping from reality) Ronnie (mentally ill people ending up as mass killers) Reload Low man's lyric - regrettably where a lot of mentally ill people end up, homeless, on the street and unable to break the cycle) Unforgiven II (Emotional abuse from partners) FiXXXer (reflecting on parental abuse and the substance abuse used to escape, perhaps even suicide) St Anger Pretty much entirely a mental health issues album, done whilst they were in group therapy, not ironically Death Magnetic/Hardwired to Self Destruct Pretty much most songs a mental health song. Issues.

BB Cafe Menu

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I thought it would be nice to share recipes. I suggest at the top of each recipe we add labels to add context: [vegan] [keto] [snack] [fish] [dessert] [easy] [experimental] [challenging] Just to name a few. Quite a few of mine might be labeled [crazy]. I am inclined towards experimental, my partner is a retired French Chef, and I have a Ceylonese, Fijian, Irish, Russian, mongrel heritage so I mix it up a little and fusion the life out of some cuisines. I also grow and forage for foods and do a fair bit of subbing out foods my family cant manage for one reason or another, so dont be afraid to ask "what can I substitute for "x" PLEASE join in. You may inspire someone to give something new a try and give them an moment of "wow! I can do this"

The Joker - Spoiler Alert!

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Has anyone seen the film? I want to know your thoughts and feelings? For me, it's up there as one of my favourite films ever! I don't usually like films as a lot of the time I go to the cinemas it's usually predictable, cheesy superhero films. But th... View more

Pop culture

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Hi is anyone here interested in a group for pop culture chat such as sci fi/fantasy movies, comic book movies, tv shows, comic books, anime, anything that popular?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CORNER❤🎈

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Im creating this thread for anyone who dosnt have contact with family ect or for deceased friends and family, pets included of course, who finds it difficult on that persons birthday. Happy birthday uncle alan, i'm sorry, i love you. Lynne

A-Z of Bands/Musicians

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The title is self explanatory, really. It's the same as Alphabetical Cities and Towns, but instead you name bands or singers following the alphabet. I'll start ABBA

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