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World Autism Day (April 2nd)

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The United Nation's World Autism Awareness Day falls on April 2nd each year. It serves to encourage awareness, understanding, and advocacy for autistic individuals.

 

Many people prefer to celebrate the day as World Autism Acceptance Day or World Autism Understanding Day as the day is about more than... read more

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How your Love Language is also a Tool for Loving Yourself:

✨Hi OC! ✨

I saw this post on TikTok explaining how you can use your own love language for some self-love 🌺

 

 

🖐Physical touch:

  • Yoga
  • Doing a face mask
  • Taking a hot shower or bath
  • Using a heating pad
  • Resting under soft blankets
  • Playing with your hair
  • Massaging your own shoulders

💜Quality time:

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We want to hear from you - take part and you could win a $100 gift card

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ReachOut are keen to learn about your experiences using the online community. Whether you’ve used ReachOut.com, the community or viewed our socials - we’d love to hear from you! 

So, who can take part?

We are looking for people who are 14-25 years old and living anywhere in Austra... read more

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TW: lately

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this is different for me to do but i might as well give it a go, recently ago my dad came to visit me and picked me up in his ‘new car’ which later i discovered was stolen, he took me back to his new house and we hung out for a few hours, he then took me to get a drink from the servo. on the way bac... read more

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How to deal with old wounds that hurt this bad

(Have no idea where to put this but rambling a bit so here should be fine XD)

Hello everyone

Bit if an odd day today

I was hanging out with friends at uni today it was all fun and cool. Then later on they start talking about their relationships and how amazing they are or maybe they are seeing someone... read more

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Why I don't have any friend. Why there's nothing in my head?

 

I used to be a bright student back at my school. Passed out my school, entered in university and my brightness started dimming. After passing out from college, my brightness was gone. I had nothing in my head, no future plans, no strategies, no friends nothing. Now I'm turning 25 next month and my... read more

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Feeling overwhelmed and becoming frozen

I'm an international student who just started my second semester of study of university here in Australia. I'm living in a studio apartement for the first time as last semester I was in a dorm. I've become increasingly overwhelmed with all the things I need to do like cooking for myself, cleaning, s... read more

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TW - Trying to adjust being off medication (for mental health) but struggling 😅😭

Having recently stopped taking anxiety/depression medication (as discussed with my gp), everything is hitting hard—all emotions are more intense. All aspects of my life just feel so overwhelming. Keeping on track with uni (weekly content, classes and assessments), working on multiple art pieces for... read more

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TW: Hate my love handles and it's really pissing me off

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Sorry this post is gonna sound kinda aggressive, but I'm just super annoyed rn bc I keep hating my body (my love handles mainly) and it just feels unfair bc I don't know why I need to hate my body so much. It's genuinely reached the point where I feel like the only answer is to lose the weight, and... read more

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TW How do you deal with feeling overwhelmed?

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Hi all,

I hope your 2025 has been good, and if it hasn't, I hope it gets better for you.

 

Before you start reading, I just want to let you know I'm gonna talk about self harm and suicide, so if it triggers you please go and get some help/talk to someone, do things that make you feel better or at the m... read more

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Feeling Down

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I don’t think I’ll ever find love. For me, relationships are like war. No matter what happens, they always abandon me in the end. All my friends go out and do things and get into relationships and like people that like them back and have fun and do stupid things with their best friends and instead o... read more

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TW for dissociation; Maladaptive Daydreaming - a very real problem

This is a very long post because I basically went through the whole story of my experience with maladaptive daydreaming. Looking for support and advice please but make sure you're in the right space before you try to help me please

 

I struggle with maladaptive daydreaming, which is a dissociative pro... read more

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I don't know what to do, something still feels off, I'm starting to think it's all just me.

Hey everyone,

 

Haven't posted in a little while. Been stuck trying to figure everything out, last Tuesday I was forced by my in person councillor to finish my VIS (Victim Impact Statement.) I'm aware that it's something that'll never feel completed however after the DPP (Department of Public Prosecut... read more

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