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i’m at the doctors now waiting for my appointment and im literally shaking because i feel so anxious rn ugh i hate me
Glad to hear you made it. The doctors is always an anxious place to be. But you made it through your shift, and made it on time. The hard parts are mostly over now.
It sucks to hear that you've been through this situation before where it wasn't taken seriously. That's shitty management. And it seems like they just want to dismiss it until it happens rather than taking action to prevent it happening. Definitely leave if they don't take it seriously this time, because every decent employer who cares about there employees wellbeing step in and prevent it in the first place.
You deserve a lot better than this Shannon.
im ok you? @DonnerKebab
Started this morning off not so great, I saw a horribly triggering post on another site with a story very similar to mine. But I went downstairs to make a coffee after and there was a little parcel on the table for me. I hadn't ordered anything so I had no idea what it was. It was a little thank you note and present from my team that I work with at the support group i look after, they'd sent them out to say thank you to us all! It was so amazing.
@toffuna101 how are you feeling about that appointment?
it’s just frustrating because of what the situation actually is - i don’t wanna trigger anybody tho
i hope the doctors are actually helpful today, and that they hurry up too haha my appointment was meant to be 20 mins ago now, which i wouldn’t mind too much if i hadn’t been at work this morning as i’ve literally been up from 1am on like 2 ish hours sleep so i am absolutely exhausted right now!!!
im feeling great about the appointment. the people at camhs are chill.
hello @eylah how's life?
@independent_ happy to see you got recognition for being so kind and caring to your support group team. You are an awesome person and truly do deserve it. Sorry to hear about the triggering post, but i'm happy your back after taking a well deserved break hopefully feeling a bit recharged.
@shannon_164 still looking out for other people, by trying to avoid triggering them. Kind as usual shannon. If you do want to vent and your worried about triggering people, i set up a seperate thread for venting about issues that are triggering and might trigger others, and put a tw on the whole thread. So you can post there if you feel comfortable. You deserve to vent as much as anybody else.
@eylah hey eylah, how are you feeling today?
Everybody, got my first spam block . Right up there with the Victoria cross and George Cross in terms of achievements 🎖️
@River morning river, are things any better for you now?
@River have you spoken to anybody else about this River, because it sounds like living hell.
I’m starting on a mission to move around more today. I’ve bought myself a little exercise stepper, it’s a v basic one from aldi but basically it’s a little step with resistance bands on it. I’m starting with 5 minutes at a time, just a really short amount of time for now. Just stepping up and down and not using the bands too much. I plan to do more minutes as it gets easier but it’s something I can do from home to get me moving around a bit which I know helps me.
@independent_ awesome stuff. Remember with getting more active, rome wasn't built in a day and neither will results be. Results might not show up overnight, but if you keep at it, it will start to get easier over time. Proud of you for making progress with it.
@DonnerKebab yh definitely is a hard time for you atm but we're all here for you and it's a new week too so maybe it will be bit better, how's your morning going so far? I'm just overthinking a lot still, like even in terms of here I just overthink a lot like now you're going through a really hard time but I'm just bringing up myself and stuff like that. I hope things get better for you though bro, they will. Men's support chat is on again today at 8pm so we could talk there too.
@River i know it doesn't count for a lot, but i believe you. And even if you can't think of exactly why it is happening on this day last year, and on the same day this year, and what makes it happen on this day in particular, it's understandable. Some mental trauma's are so bad, our brain has ways of shielding us from it, and making us forget some of it subconsciously. It's effects are still there just subconsciously. A psychological phenomenon called dissociative amnesia. Thus the gaps in my memory at certain ages which i think i mentioned a tiny bit last night. I believe you fully friend.