Welcome! Introduce yourself here 🙂

[holdinghope5]

Welcome @Soireethepanda . We are please to meet you and Soiree.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to connect with you. We have many members and staff with lived experience of mental health challenges who would love to connect with you.

What are some things you enjoy doing?

[Soireethepanda]

I have writing and reading. I love observing things. I wanna be out in nature more. I wanna get back to writing,

gotta fix my laptop first.

[tyme]

Hey @Soireethepanda , that's so great to hear! You may want to have a look at The Creative Writing Corner . Feel free to share over there. Also, where is your favourite place to go? I love the beach. I could spend all day there.

[Exceptional]

Hey, I'm Exceptional !

Hope all reading this are well.

I found these forums as I am searching for housing options as I experience a mental illness, have a NDIS package and am currently in crisis accommodation. Hoping to join Mind [location edited by moderator] but we'll see how that unfolds.

I live with bipolar disorder that has completely disrupted my 20's (I'm 29 now). Looking to stabilise with proper medication, strategies to cope and deal and hopefully strive for a life where I thrive and am happy, I know it's possible.

All the best !

[LilithLucy]

Hey…

uhh I’m in my late-ish 30’s.. main diagnoses are cPTSD and BPD, there’s a lot more though. 
ny nervous system is completely fried

i am so burnt out

life just seems to be one traumatic event after another 

Umm nice to meet you..?

[tyme]

Hi there @LilithLucy ,

Welcome to the forums. It's great to have you share some of what has been going on for you.

Please know you are not alone.

I know first hand what it is like to live with BPD. I'm mindful of the ups and downs as well as the traumatic events. 

What keeps you going? 

[LilithLucy]

@tyme What keeps me going right now is music, my caTs, and spite…

that’s all I can think of 

[tyme]

Hey @LilithLucy , that's great that you can recognise even a few things that keep you going. If you don't mind me asking, what is spite?

You may be interested in Raising Awareness of BPD - Flipping the Script 

Do you have supports you can lean on?

[LilithLucy]

@tyme @Hi again!!

spite is kind of like defiance. If everyone expects me to fail then hang on, no, I’ll prove them all wrong kind of thing 🙂

kind of immature I know lol

Thank you so much for the link!

I don’t really have a support system, no. But that’s okay I’ve been doing this alone my whole life!

[tyme]

Hey @LilithLucy ,

I'll post in the other thread you started. See you there!