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Suicidal Feelings
If you are struggling regarding suicidal feelings, it can be a difficult and frightening time. MIND is a Mental Health charity that offers support, information and advice, here are some links to their website that might be helpful to you. You are not alone, you are a member of our community and we appreciate you. If you…
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Mental health
One mental health worker I visited told me I have EUPD . I was also given medication to help anxiety too .
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Hello again
This discussion was created from comments split from: Hello again. I hope everybody is okay.
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Future welfare cuts
Alan Milburn going after the long term sick
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Can someone please help me
I just phoned 111 and they couldn't help what can zi do?
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Not coping
I'm not coping with everything that's happened today and literally feel like I'm.going insane.My son has picked up on it so this is how bad the situation now is.I think I will phone social services in the morning because its just too much now.I cannot take anymore
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Depression
In any form or degree of severity depression is more disabling than most people care to admit. It is so serious that the medics simply dont know how to cure it. To accept this and then the abuse that people with any disability have to to tolerate is infuriating. At any budget and every budget very little is done to even…
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Loneliness
For those of you who live alone and dont have friends/family close by how do you deal with the loneliness .My family are 100 miles away and after taking voluntary severance due to ill health in July, my Daughter then left to go to University and I had to rehome my beloved dog as I couldnt walk him due to mobility issues. I…
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Children In Hospital
I can't help but get upset when I think about children suffering in hospital. I know I spent time in and out of hospitals as a child, but I know out there families are going through rigorous hardships because a boy or girl is enduring a lot of pain. It just shouldn't happen and as I write this tears are rolling down my…
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Early retirement
I’m 63 and want to retire early due to ill health and mental health. What are my options? What do I tell.gov
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My recent diagnosis
I recently got diagnosed with Grade 1 endometrial cancer on 3/11/25. I have an operation booked for 23/12/25. I’m currently visiting my parents (I live alone). I don’t want to keep bringing the subject up to everyone. I suffer from depression and anxiety and also M.E/CFS and have done for years. When I got the recent news…
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Therapy waiting and limited sessions
Hope everyone is feeling as well as can be, I have just finished a course of CBT for trauma. It took months of waiting for therapy and just as I started to feel comfortable with my therapist and started to open up …… that's it, you're cut off and told to refer back in a few months! I had reached the maximum amount of…
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Take away from therapy
So I finally had an assessment after almost a year of waiting and what I thought was therapy today was infact an assessment for what therapy I will eventually get in what could be ANOTHER year!.It was extremely stressful for a number of reasons.The therapist was very nice and I was very open about how things are,what the…
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Sneaky Social Worker
Nearly 20yrs ago i had terrible experiences with my local Mental Health services - i felt thoroughly abused by that system). I then made a promise to myself that i would never again engage with mental health services as long as i had a breathe in my body and thus far i have honoured that promise. 6 months ago my social…
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Family issues
so today I was supposed to meet my nan for lunch, but I woke up feeling really anxious and sick and with a mild headache. I told her if it was okay not to come and I explained honestly. I basically have slept all day. my dad messaged me and said “what the hell you blew her out? I’m like no I woke up feeling super anxious…
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health anxiety
Hi , So i suffer from health anxiety and I just feel so overwelmed so im just going to type to mabe release , can anyone else relate ? its like a dark cloud that is over my entire world its makes me feel very vonarable and scared I question every feeling and thought Im that scared of dying or getting a life threating…
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Just an outlet post, FOMO, grief,pip and albus
Got my pip review through beginning of the month, still need to complete it and need to call them to ask for an extension (god I hate you have to call). Executive dysfunction is kicking my but not doing it but every now and then I think about it and get really sad, as although I knew it was due next year (almost exactly 12…
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Health Anxiety
Hi , So i suffer from health anxiety and I just feel so overwelmed so im just going to type to mabe release , can anyone else relate ? its like a dark cloud that is over my entire world its makes me feel very vonarable and scared I question every feeling and thought Im that scared of dying or getting a life threating…
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Hello again. I hope everybody is okay
Last year i was writing here about my depression and struggles to get Universal Credit when i lived in supported accommodation... I just want to let you know, that I am under a doctor now, and started to take anti-depressants. Yesterday i had a phone chat with a therapist, but she told me that I need a psychiatrist, so she…
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Types of Meditation
@Rosie_Scope and @Kookee and I were talking about meditation in another thread, and I suggested that I start this thread so people can talk about the different types of meditation they've done. Just a disclaimer here that I am simply a meditation consumer - not an expert or advocate or therapist or specialist or anything…
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Psychiatrist on Facebook
I am due to start specialist pschotherapy apparently next year so I looked up the place which is NHS.I saw that there had been complaints and reviews left on Google about a Dr/Psychiatrist there.Anyway I looked him up and dug a bit deeper only to find he has a Facebook page like a member of the public!.It's all very odd.It…
