Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

[Moonchild25]

Hi, I'm new here.

Starting life again at 50 and just trying to find some support and community to stop it from feeling so horrible.

[Shaz51]

Hello and welcome @Moonchild25 ❤️

[tyme]

Absolutely welcome @Moonchild25 ! I'm sorry to hear that things are a little horrible at the moment. 

Is there anything you feel we can do to make it more bearable for you? We're a pretty chill bunch of people over here. 

Some like to make us laugh. Some like to make us ponder. Some like to make us try new things.

What are things you are interested in doing in your spare time?

@Shaz51 @Someonetotalkto 

Looking foward to getting to know you.

[FastVent_]

Hey Everybody! New here, just a pretty (i think🥹😂) introvert mentally bogged in life. I’m a Wife/Mother and some do say both can be some hard yakka! I personally haven’t been myself since becoming both so I decided before I lose myself completely let’s seek professional help! Boy was that a waste😞 ended up wasting money and precious time with the Family I “felt” needed a better me.

guess there’s always a chance elsewhere right? Hope this helps us all 🤍

[AuntGlow]

Hello @FastVent_, thank you so much for sharing your story and welcome to the community! We are all here to help and encourage you to rediscover yourself. 👏

It sounds like you have a really interesting journey of self-reflection and exploration ahead. I hope that things start to feel more balanced with your family and partner throughout this journey too. 💛

[FastVent_]

Thankyou!! Your reply was much appreciated!! On to better things for us all💛

[indigocyclone]

Hey,

I’m a chick in my mid twenties, dealing with moderate but long term mood disorders (dysthymia, social anxiety, general anxiety) for like, the past 10-15 years. Also diagnosed with combined adhd, and suspected dyscalculia. 
I’m in a financially precarious situation, which means I can’t afford any mental health care except my monthly $7 antidepressant prescription 🤪

Moved from a small town to a huge city about 12 months ago. It’s helped a bit. But. It’s made me somehow even more lonelier than I thought was possible.

It’s gotten to the point where even the most surface level information about myself is embarrassing. ‘What do you do for a living?’ I’m a waitress. ‘What do you do for fun?’ Look at photos of my dead dog, write self insert fanfiction and watch fleabag for the 80th time all while eating a share size bag of maltesers. ‘Omg do you have a boyfriend?’ The thought of going on a first date makes me physically nauseous. ‘You’re so pretty, what’s your secret?’ Idk having no friends gives me a lot of time to screw around with makeup and being too depressed to eat keeps me slim. The rack is genetics. Sorry. 

I don’t know. What to do except put one foot in another.

My resilience, my independence is praised even when I so openly talk about my mental illness. Maybe people would actually listen to my pleas for help if I started crying everywhere I went. 
And I know it will get better. And it has gotten better but only fractionally and marginally so, at great emotional and financial expense. 
But at the same time. I feel like I’ve lost my teens, my early twenties, to this sickness of the mind. A half-life. Spent asleep and crying and stuck in memory and self loathing more than anywhere else. 

Whatever this has gotten way longer than I expected.

I’ll be fine. I’m just sick of currently feeling like shit. 

[holdinghope5]

Hi @indigocyclone and welcome

I'm glad you've found this space to come and connect and share a bit about yourself. 

I noticed that you've mentioned how hard it can be to get mental health support when you're limited financially and I just wanted to share some support options that could be available to you:

You mentioned that you're in your mid-20s, Headspace offers free mental health supports to young people up to 25 years old. 

SANE also has a free Guided Recovery program that you might like to check out here.

If you speak to your GP about getting a mental health care plan there are also quite a few only psychology clinics that offer bulk-billed sessions, if you search for 'bulk billed online psychologist Australia' a whole list will come up and you can see if any seem right for you.

Aside from that, we do have a great community here and hopefully reaching out here is a step towards feeling a bit less alone.

[WhiteTygrr79]

Hello 

I don’t really know where to start honestly- I could have used forums like this years ago. My husband finally gained stability in 2019 after five years of being locked in psychosis 24/7 with frequent attempts to take his own life. He’s stable now which is wonderful, but now I’m trying to rebuild myself and find out who I really am and what my life’s purpose is. 

[Ru-bee]

Hi @WhiteTygrr79 and welcome!

I'm so glad to hear that both your husband and you are experiencing more stability. I hope that the forms can be helpful as you do rebuild, and that you can feel supported in that process here