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R.Penn Isolated
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Hey, I wanted to reach out again and have a chat with someone who wants to listen. I have had a really rough last 2022. It’s a very long story. I have GAD and possible APD. I recently tried to get back onto MHCP after living in a caravan for the last... View more

Hey, I wanted to reach out again and have a chat with someone who wants to listen. I have had a really rough last 2022. It’s a very long story. I have GAD and possible APD. I recently tried to get back onto MHCP after living in a caravan for the last 6 months. I am now in a much better position and consider myself lucky to have such a beautiful old rental and living with my old cat and partner. I am currently unemployed again, I have had a rocky career Road. My HSP and anxieties make it hard to stay in a job long term. My longest has only been a year working for someone else and 10 yrs on and off freelance design and illustration. I have moved around a bit and have lost touch with a lot of people I used to know. I only have one close friend and she lives in Melbourne. My family are very broken and we keep to ourselves and hardly visit. My mother and father are narcissistic and self absorbed. I wanted to get onto a MHCP and see a new psychologist but I just gave up, they have changed the Medicare rebates now and I can’t afford a gp and pay $200 upfront for a psych each visit while I am on centrelink. I consider myself grateful but I do find I need support with my depression and anxiety, I am 33 and feel aimless, I have tried having long term goals but covid ruined that. I just need help finding purpose in my daily living and I don’t really get to talk to anyone unless it’s my partner, or the checkout lady where I shop. I feel so alone and I don’t mind being on my own I like my company but I’m finding my life very boring and sedentary and loneliness keep creeping back in. I would love to find a support group in Queensland… I just feel older now and like I won’t find anyone I can connect with. I also am isolating because I have to learn my own boundaries and find I have gone the opposite way and withdrawn from society so I don’t get hurt again…. Can anyone relate?

Orangeicy Losing the rose tinted glasses
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The rant. Apologies. Over these past few months I've been attempting to grow as a person, to learn about myself and the scars I carry. I am anxious, low self-esteem and people pleasing. Through my digging I have discovered that I was most likely pare... View more

The rant. Apologies. Over these past few months I've been attempting to grow as a person, to learn about myself and the scars I carry. I am anxious, low self-esteem and people pleasing. Through my digging I have discovered that I was most likely parentified. The daughter servant expected to help out and be responsible for far more than was right. I was my mother's mini therapist. Always had to be skinnier/more popular/better and yet not ever good enough despite my best efforts. I always wished I was someone else, dreaming myself away in stacks of library books. Always wishing I had been a boy, because maybe then I would have been as good as my two brothers. Anyway, through my digging I have discovered (I think) that my mum is a covert narcissist.She fits all the criteria.Perfect to the outside worldSilent treatmentWalking on eggshells with herObsessed with looksWhen I opened up about my anxiety to her a few months back it was minimized. Treated it like it was an attention thing. Pushed me straight back down in the ditch after I has risked talking about it. My dad I'm not too sure about. Whether he is a narcissist, enabler or just emotionally stunted. I don't talk to him much because he is literally like a person with the title "dad" attached. There is no emotional value.He believes that giving money shows he cares, but has no capacity to talk emotions with anyone. I feel like I am constantly carrying a big backpack of shame and sadness with me. And I am sick of it. I have moved far far away from my parents. Only see them sporadically. But letting go of the self image that was crammed down my throat proves a lot harder than I ever thought. Therapy is unaffordable at this point so I am choosing here to unpack my bag of sh***y emotions.

Beaser Medication change scares me .
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Hi this is my first post in this section. I just yesterday seen a new Dr as my old one is unavailable . He seemed quite good and interested in how i was. I have been on a certain medication for a few years ... He decided to up my dose which scares me... View more

Hi this is my first post in this section. I just yesterday seen a new Dr as my old one is unavailable . He seemed quite good and interested in how i was. I have been on a certain medication for a few years ... He decided to up my dose which scares me. I have a friend who was on the same medication but she found it terrible and switched to another which she found really good . Im just so scared that this may not be the right thing for me. Ive decided to take his advice and try the higher dose but im just scared after what my friend went through . This is really scaring me and what if it sends me backwards . Brett ,

Hopeland How to live with someone with narcissistic traits
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I believe my partner has narcissistic traits and is affecting my mental health. I feel I need support as I at the moment am not happy to just leave the relationship. For now I just need to talk to people so I don’t go insane

I believe my partner has narcissistic traits and is affecting my mental health. I feel I need support as I at the moment am not happy to just leave the relationship. For now I just need to talk to people so I don’t go insane

Meltymoment Sister is paranoid her doc is drugging her
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My sister in law has been diagnosed with ADHD for 2 years. But hasn't handled the medications well.At first she thought her doctor was giving her placebos now she thinks he is give her anti psychotic meds secretly. She has looked up ways doctors can ... View more

My sister in law has been diagnosed with ADHD for 2 years. But hasn't handled the medications well.At first she thought her doctor was giving her placebos now she thinks he is give her anti psychotic meds secretly. She has looked up ways doctors can do this pap smears robotic tablets etc. She also thinks her ex house mates are messing with their house breaky things killing the lawn etc. She has quit jobs and been fired for her mental health issues. I am really worried for her. How do I get her committed? She has a daughter at how with autism that is about to go to high school and doesn't need this on top of everything.

anonymous_username I think I might have autism
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(I wasn’t sure where to post this). So recently my family and I went on this trip where we visited a giant city. I was really looking forward to it, and don’t get me wrong, it was amazing, but the whole time I was feeling really off for no reason. I ... View more

(I wasn’t sure where to post this). So recently my family and I went on this trip where we visited a giant city. I was really looking forward to it, and don’t get me wrong, it was amazing, but the whole time I was feeling really off for no reason. I live in a small town where you know most people, and go to a small school so I have never really been to a place with that many people before. I wanted to know why I was feeling so off when I was scrolling through YouTube and came across a video about autism (like signs of it or what is felt like or something like that). There are a few autistic people at my school so I thought ‘hey, maybe you could get to know them better!’. So I was watching the video and realised that a lot of these things I could relate to. It got me thinking and I started researching everything I could about ASD. So I think that I have maybe high functioning autism, and I asked my mum and she said ‘yes probably but you don’t need a test because it’s not that much of an issue’. It annoyed me at first but then I started thinking that if I got a test and it said I don’t have autism then I would feel like I was just really bad at communicating and everything social. I dunno, it was just worrying me.-anonymous

Saphira Voluntary Admission, looking for advice
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Hey guys, I am looking for advice, some guidance regarding a voluntary admission. I have been struggling with my mental health for as long as I can remember, A year ago I actually quit my job, packed up and moved back in with my parents to have a men... View more

Hey guys, I am looking for advice, some guidance regarding a voluntary admission. I have been struggling with my mental health for as long as I can remember, A year ago I actually quit my job, packed up and moved back in with my parents to have a mental health gap year of sorts and really build myself up to start again., I eat healthy and exercise regularly, I take supplements to help support my body and mind. Over the last year I have made progress, It has been agonizingly slow, but it is progress. I feel like finally making the decision to stop trying to push myself through life like "normal people" can and working on myself has actually made me very vulnerable, I feel as if I am made of glass and can no longer push through or shrug things off like I used to. I had accepted this as a positive as a sign I am no longer lying to myself and that the resilience will slowly build. I just recently had a positive test result from the Dr that like depression also comes with a huge stigma, This has absolutely crippled me and I need help. I have made the decision that I need to go and have a stay at a Psychiatric Hospital. I have called both the hospital and my health insurance in the past to work out what I will be out of pocket for and I am able to upgrade insurance and access a once in a lifetime mental health waiver. I am here because there has been many periods in my life where I should have admitted myself but did not with the excuse of leaving workmates to cover my work load, not being able to afford rent while not working, and then of course the ridiculous shame, guilt, feelings of being a burden and not wanting to make a fuss, and also hesitant as to what to expect. I have tried all of the tools, this is the last thing in my toolbox to try, I would love some encouragement or to hear from people who have had a positive admission that helped, especially whether these feelings of me not wanting to cause a fuss or feel shame, or that I am overreacting, are a common problem for others too that delayed them getting help. Also that I can admit how ridiculous my fears are, as this is not bouts of mild depression. This is severe, agonizing torture that poison my brain that have suffocating me for years, yet my brain still tells me that I am over reacting? Brains are ridiculous.

CodyJon75 Narcissistic Blindside 23 years on
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I am attempting to reach people who have dealt with a specific type of Partner with NPD. My story is not of verbal abuse or rage. It's of 23 years of conning, using, manipulation and intense survival. No family member listens. No psychologist will li... View more

I am attempting to reach people who have dealt with a specific type of Partner with NPD. My story is not of verbal abuse or rage. It's of 23 years of conning, using, manipulation and intense survival. No family member listens. No psychologist will listen. I'm medicated and addicted to so many drugs to just wake up. Who do I talk to that will listen? I need professional face to face support. My personality profile has changed from PTSD so only strong recovery people I think will help.

crazymum1975 Depressed
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I have decided that I need to go back on some medication to help with my depression. I have no motivation I am crying all the time I hardly leave the house except for work and essentials. I have no social interactions as I feel unworthy of love and f... View more

I have decided that I need to go back on some medication to help with my depression. I have no motivation I am crying all the time I hardly leave the house except for work and essentials. I have no social interactions as I feel unworthy of love and friendship. I am a single mum of 4 amazing young adults and a grandma to 1. I don’t know which antidepressants to go take. I have been on medication before I don’t feel that it helped. I have also gained so much weight in the last year I am heavier now than I was pregnant with any of my kids. I was wondering if anyone has felt similar and experienced the same, and if so what helped?

I_live_in_the_cracks The system is broken
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I have a psychiatrist but I can’t afford the psychiatrist and a psychologist or rehabilitation. I feel locked in to seeing the psychiatrist monthly because I don’t think I would cope well with withdrawal from the medication I am on. I had a bad workp... View more

I have a psychiatrist but I can’t afford the psychiatrist and a psychologist or rehabilitation. I feel locked in to seeing the psychiatrist monthly because I don’t think I would cope well with withdrawal from the medication I am on. I had a bad workplace experience. I have extensively researched what does and does not constitute workplace bullying and I am 100% positive that I, and multiple others were bullied in that very toxic work environment. I know the research says that the way to recover is to work through what happened with someone and then get back on the horse. Where is the help to do that?i am not perfect and I have not done everything right. I have made mistakes but what happened to me was not about me.I do not like who I am now. I am reactive and cry at the drop of a hat. I used to be functional. I used to be optimistic. I used to participate in life. I used to look after myself. I am not myself. I am about to lose what is left to keep me clinging to life.I had just started feeling capable of moving forward and that I was improving, but time is up. I asked for help or direction to find help and I got a sorry we can’t help you. At least I can tell the next person that points me towards beyond blue that I have done that and it is pointless. The systems need to be changed. Introduce workplace mediation services so there is independent parties an employee can go to for help before formal procedures. HR will always protect the company because they need to keep their jobs. When your only action is a legal complaint which you have to pay to make and agree to pay everyone’s costs if you can’t prove it, it is immensely intimidating. No complaint - no help.

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