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MS12345|New Contributor|Last message about 2 hours ago
Marriage/abuse

I have been separated for 4 months now as my husband is a drug addict. I had to tell home to leave as he wouldn't hange at all. He refused to go to rehab in Australia he went when he was overseas. Sometimes he would say I am coming home tonight and wouldn't for a few day's. More than once people called the police to try and find him. He didn't care that we called the police. He is so mean and didn't care that we were worried for him. He was taken to the hospital by the police by force twice because of the drugs. He one time begged me to agree that he could go home. I didn't really want to say yes. He then went to straight away to take drugs as I didn't have to go and pick him up. His mum blamed me for many thing's. One was you let him return to your house to die. His family is so mean to me. I am still recovering from all this pain and hurt. My counselor said I have been abused. 

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BipolarPenguin|Senior Contributor|Last message about 4 hours ago
Unsure about how I'm doing ~ meds change and other big changes

Hi, it's been a while since I posted here! I have been pretty good, stable as well and I've made friends, and met new colleagues through volunteering.  Recently though, I'm a bit worried, as tonight I did a bunch of cleaning and tidying up in my bedroom before "bed" (I haven't gone to bed yet!). I typically tidy up or make messes in the efforts towards tidying up when I'm a little manic. The other day, a tree that has been outside my window for the last year and a half, got removed.So now I have more light coming into my room and no tree branches squeaking up against my window.... .... but the big change has kind of got to me?? I feel like it shouldn't have hit this hard but I really love birds, especially suburban ones, and they will have less places to sleep and perch with the tree gone. I also had a med change this week: from taking a 'mood stabiliser' twice a day to ceasing the med all together as under the PBS it is not indicated for bipolar, according to not my usual GP.I'm really concerned about whether this swing in energy and mood is to do with the med change?My old psychiatrists said it is a mood stabiliser.... so maybe that's why my mood is feeling unstable? I also take an antipsychotic so that should keep me from going psychotic but we'll see I guess. I hope nothing goes wrong but I think I might be doing too much and worrying/thinking too much too. Do you think I'll be alright? Should I talk to my doctor about all this? Considering calling them later (this morning haha) I have emailed my old psychologist and asked for a telehealth consult so hopefully that happens too. This could be just hypomania... right? (I hope)

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PeterStrahm|Contributor|Last message 39 minutes ago
Awful family member

Hi. I have a sibling who is downright awful. In the past two weeks, they have: said my disability isn’t as severe as theirs, undermined my chronic pain, swore at our mother, called family friends slurs, complained about a past holiday they did not financially contribute to at all, complained about every single one of my treating doctors, complained about me increasing my therapy because “I know you and I know you won’t be able to do it,” complained about getting less than ten hours of sleep every week day, complained about our mother not making them breakfast at the time they demanded, complained about mum being on the phone to other family members, complained about dad having a day off, set off my seizures by touching my arms when I told them not to, sent triggering pictures to me that I asked not to see which triggered my seizures, complained about me using the only disabled bathroom in the house when they wanted to sleep, screamed at mum in front of our cleaner and insulted her for misremembering information regarding my sibling’s medications, accused us of conspiring behind their back after they screamed across the house while venting to me about their work and my dad overheard and asked about it, and more I’m probably forgetting.Today they have decided that it is my responsibility to ensure mum keeps her voice down while they are asleep. We were talking because I needed to go toilet and have medications, but as far as I remember everything was kept to a whisper. My sibling says they heard every word but what they reported hearing was never spoken between mum and I during our conversation. Ironically, I have woken up most days this fortnight from their screaming — at mum, about work, yelling ‘help me’ because they dropped something (nothing broke and it wasn’t a massive drop), screaming because they couldn’t get a shoe on (they were indoors, not going anywhere). My psychiatrist said their behaviour is provocative. He suggested they’re upset about external factors and taking it out on the rest of us. I don’t know if I care. I’ve posted before on the forums about my sibling’s behaviour and I’ve about had it with them and their entitlement. I wish I could leave. I looked into out of home care facilities but my doctors discouraged me. I would ideally prefer to stay with my parents, but my sibling’s behaviour the past 16 months is driving me nuts. My sibling refuses to move out and my parents won’t kick them out because they threatened to go no-contact. I don’t care if they do. I just want a nice living environment, and I have that with my parents.   

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bravingthewaves|New Contributor|Last message about 16 hours ago
Some days are better than others

Hi all, I'm new here 🙂 Reaching out as I've always wondered if I have OCD. The symptoms come and go depending on lifestyle changes and stressors. I have a long history of anxiety and depression. What brought me here today is in the past week or so my thought patterns have been compulsive, around the idea that everyone hates me/has no respect for me. Sometimes the thoughts are quite loud and probably excessive but have been impacting my work and personal life. Sometimes I find I take a day off work just to try and combat all the thoughts in my head. I had been to a psychologist about 18 months ago about but they were very textbook and I was running out of excuses to leave work to attend the sessions so I stopped going. Hopefully I've come to the right place for support.

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