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Thank you for understanding, Lisa.

It's ok to use just the forums, isn't it?

Thank you!

Thank you.

It's 'simply' the matter of overcoming personal insecurities and extreme self consciousness and getting out there... and finding something that works around my schedule.

Thanks everyone, your kind words mean so much. E-Bee, I don't really have any friends, and that is part of the problem. I need friends. Just, I've isolated myself for so long - you know how depression can be? I do have a Befriender through Mind, and my flatmate. But my flatmate is going through her ...

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I'm not so much a chat room person.

Thank you balcony.

I'm technically not a librarian - that's the next grade up from mine! But I do a lot of the similar work.

My creativity of choice is creative non fiction, poetry and therapeutic art. I've also danced in the past. My challenge now is to join a group for one of these things.

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How're you doing today?

What is the meaning of life, for you?

And - welcome!

I know for me, and it might be different for you, but just a thought... when I finally felt safe to feel how I felt, when my external life was stable, that was when I started to get really unwell. That was 6 or so years ago, although I'd had difficulties before then. It is a painful paradox that the...

Welcome! I'm new here, too.

I get PMDD symptoms, yes. For me, isolation, rage/aggression and paranoia are the worst. Ironically, I was screened for PMS, but apparently I don't have it as my hormonal changes aren't the only trigger for the more extreme emotions. *rolls eyes* I think it was more because I refuse hormone based me...

I've struggled with some anorexic thinking and behaviours in my time. But more recently I've been up against, at times, using food to fill the emotional emptiness I can feel. It's tough. Learning, through therapy, to really be with all my feelings more safely is something that really helps me.

I think different people have different takes on chronic depression. My understanding is that for a diagnosis of dysthymia it means having depression of a certain threshold for AT LEAST 2 years. But then the medical model is full of flaws in my view. What counts is how you feel, and the support that...

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