Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

[Jennifer3]

Thank you for the warm welcome 🙂 Unfortunately I can't access the options you mentioned due to my postcode. But happy to have the opportunity with phoning the Counsellers.

[Captain24]

Hi @Jennifer3 

If you scroll up from this comment your post is above. If you are looking for it from the main forum page. Go to lived  experience the Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂  thread. It’ll be on the last page.

Hope that helps a little

[tyme]

Sure thing. Thank you for asking @Jennifer3 .

To see new notifications, you can click on 'New' and you can then click on your latest responses. Then scroll up or down on the page to view your post. For example, mine shows I have 15 new notifications (see pic below).

[tyme]

That's okay @Jennifer3 regarding the guided service. We are still rolling out this service. It will soon be available in more areas. You can keep an eye out.

And yes, you can certainly phone our beautiful counsellors. They are so incredibly lovely to speak to. Once again, their number is 1800 187 263. They will be available M-F.

[Judi9877]

Hello and welcome to the forums @ultimateegghead @Jennifer3 @Ashby 👋! I’m a Community Guide here with a lived experience of several mental illnesses including depression and am a domestic violence survivor as well. It’s great to have you on the forums! I see that you’ve met the wonderful forum members of @maddison and @tyme who are great people to know on the forums so well done. It’s very courageous and brave of you for sharing your stories and I hope you find the support you need here in forumland. 

I look forward to seeing you around here soon!

Take care!

Judi9877☺️💐

[Dark_Angel]

Hi guys,

Hope you all had a great Xmas and New Years… I joined up over a year ago and this is my first post… I was diagnosed with Complex PTSD and with overlapping Cluster B Personality Disorders… Borderline, narcissistic, antisocial and histrionic about 7 years ago… I had a psychologist for 5 years until I reached a point where I felt that he couldn’t help me anymore and tried to find someone who specialises in Personality Disorders… For two years I have been constantly rejected by psychologists who simply didn’t want to deal with people with this type of diagnosis and the stigma that comes with it… Also with the onset on covid and the many people accessing Mental Health Care Plans psychologists were hard to come by even some having a 6 month waiting list… And with that came an increase in billing to $260 per session when I was usually bulk billed… So I started doing my own research which lead me to sane.org… I’m trying to get onto the DSP so I could actually afford to see a specialist but I’m not having any luck at all… And I’m considering going to a DSP activist to help with my 2nd application… I suppose I’m making this post because I feel like I’m running out of options and am looking for any suggestions as to how to manoeuvre in this current environment… 

Thank you all for your time… Regards…

[JCT]

Hi all,

New here.  I’ve decided to give this a go and hoping to feel a bit more connected. I’ve been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder - this has been very hard to accept and I’ve found it hard to find information that I relate to and it’s been a fairly isolating journey. But here I am, still getting on with it. Looking forward to working out how to navigate these forums. Appreciate any direction in how to best work this. 

Outside of the mental health stuff, I enjoy painting, drawing and really everything creative. 

[Paperdaisy]

Hey @JCT Welcome! I hope you will find this to be a supportive community. Just use the @ symbol to tag people you reply to so they get a notification. You can search for any topic using the search bar at the top and all of the threads associated with that topic will come up. You can also use the tag buttons at the bottom of the page for similar. 

You're not alone, there are a lot of people here who can relate to your experience. Welcome 😊

[TK23]

Hello, I’m new here. I guess I’ve been feeling really down and I want to talk to people that understand me. I haven’t been diagnosed with anxiety however I have been feeling anxious for a while now and find it hard to talk to people. I’m not a very confident person, but my confidence has dropped dramatically. 

I’m starting to care more about what people think of me and I suppose I have a fear of getting judged. A lot of people stare at me which has lowered my confidence. I don’t like myself as it is. I also feel alone sometimes and find it so hard to talk to people so this is a really big step for me because I’m really shy. 

This is a really brief introduction but I’m really happy to be here! 

[Paperdaisy]

Hey @TK23 Welcome! It's difficult to reach out, I get that! Thank you for being here. How are you doing? Wondering what sort of supports you have in place at the moment? I too struggle with confidence at times so I understand what this is like. It's something I have to work on all the time and it isn't easy 💝