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Advocating for change

Advocating for change

Advocate for better mental health care.

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Elenor123 | Casual Contributor | Last message 2 days ago

Suicidal ideation and Support

My 18 year old is going through a very hard time. They have ASD and has self harmed (said it was an attempt. Wounds were superficial). They isolate themselves a lot.I have worked home from work for a couple of weeks to support them as best as I can throug

Advocating for changeCreated 5 days ago

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grozza | Casual Contributor | Last message 4 days ago

Their is always hope

Hi I have suffered mental illness for 20 years now from a severe phycotic mental breakdown which I have battled with everything overtime what the unwell mind can do to you ect treatment numerous times it seems it works for some people and not others stron

Advocating for changeCreated 5 days ago

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Brenita | Contributor | Last message 6 days ago

Im sick of it all been so hard.

Im struggling atm l suffered a stress breakdown and am taking stress leave from work l have been bullied by my boss and some others at work. I have also recently cut off an unhealthy one sided friendship and feel pretty alone as l tried so hard to make th

Advocating for changeCreated 7 days ago

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activistempath | Casual Contributor | Last message last week

Advocacy for Families of ageing Veterans

I’m mid fifties, oldest daughter of a Veteran, newly ADHD diagnosed, have had support from Open Arms for 20+ years, am a campaign organiser and had a really shitty thing happen earlier this year.My Dad has had one foot in the grave since he went TPI, and

Advocating for changeCreated 2 weeks ago

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Sequester | Senior Contributor | Last message 2 weeks ago

Controlled technique

I went through this as part of being assertively managed, by community mental health team. Years later, despite the psychologist who listened to how the meeting was going said "I do not appreciate the tone" of the instigators, there seems to be locally ad

Advocating for changeCreated 2 weeks ago

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Sequester | Senior Contributor | Last message 2 weeks ago

Being in ED where your meds are taken from you

I know not to mention meds but let’s say the gold standard is suddenly taken from your routine and you are forced to go without until a psychiatrist finally replaces it. Can you imagine how that messes not just with your head but also the underlying why?D

Advocating for changeCreated 3 weeks ago

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Mahal | New Contributor | Last message 2 weeks ago

Manic episode

Hello, my sister is going through a manic episode or hyper manic not sure, it’s possibly a year now and getting worse, she lives with my parents and her son, my parents are in their 70’s,At this stage she’s accused my mum of having the ppl in the town all

Advocating for changeCreated 2 weeks ago

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avant-garde | Senior Contributor | Last message 2 weeks ago

Child Sexual Abuse (TW)

There's been talk about the impacts of child sexual abuse during the early years... I've noticed it in me for the last 7-9 years... I don't have many memories without it... mine started around when my younger brother was born... before I even went to pre-

Advocating for changeCreated last year

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Dimity | Senior Contributor | Last message 2 weeks ago

Foundational supports... the gap not covered by NDIS

Some services are being removed from NDIS and are supposed to be funded by the states. The new ecosystem is also supposed to cover people not on NDIS. Then there's the aged sector of people who were deemed ineligible for NDIS from the start, but equivalen

Advocating for changeCreated 2 years ago

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