RICH TEXT HTML PREVIEW Hi Everybody,   Soon I will be finishing up my six psychology sessions at my local mental health clinic, and these sessions have consisted of learning about different distraction techniques that I can use when I am ruminating on thoughts.   The first distraction technique I learned was STOP. STOP is an acronym for:  S = Stop. T = Take a step back. O = Observe. P = Proceed mindfully.   In elaboration, STOP means: S = STOP! And FREEZE! T = Take a step back. You can do this mentally or physically. Also take a deep breath. O = Observe. What is going on? What is going on inside of you? What is going on outside of you? What feelings are you experiencing? What thoughts are you experiencing? P = Proceed mindfully. You want to consider the appropriateness of your actions and the way that they impact the people that are involved in the situation that you are exposed to.   I have not familiarized myself with the second and third ones and when I do I will edit this post to include them!       ... View more

I am really stuck.   I will be returning to adult school this year, after having a year off due to mental health problems. I started my journey to obtain my certificate of education back in 2016, where I commenced Year 11, and have been doing Year 11 since, as there were/are so many subjects that I obtain/obtained an interest in completing. I am considering in doing Year 11 again this year as I want to ease back into school (after the year I had, being admitted to the mental hospital three times and being mentally and physically drained from all that I went through) instead of getting right into Year 12 as of yet. I will do Year 12 one day, hopefully next year, I just do not think that it is wise of me to get back to school and get right into Year 12 and stress myself out. I hope all this makes sense because it doesnt seem to with me.        ... View more

I cant go on like this.   I am currently not studying and I am also unemployed, and all I seem to do all day is sleep. I have no energy to do a single thing at all. I get into trouble for doing nothing with myself. I feel like my family do not understand the extent of my mental health problems. My own grandmother has given up on me and no longer wants contact with me because she is sick of dealing with my deteriorating mental health. I've felt suicidal, because I am too depressed to work and study (I walked out of work one day and I haven't returned since), and also because my life never worked out with a man I was interested in. I start the first of six sessions with a psychologist tomorrow morning, and I am looking forward to that. I had a great job. I worked at a grocery store and I worked fifteen hours a week. This was my first ever job, and I liked it, but I only liked stacking shelves and working at checkout. I did not like facing. With studying, I was attending an adult school so that I could get my certificate of education. I have completed Year 11, now I am choosing to complete Year 12. I want to complete Year 12 successfully and to get an ATAR in the nineties. I feel like I am incapable of achieving this because of the state of my mental health. I gave up studying last year because I was stressed. I dont think the senior leader at the school wants to support me anymore. And I don't want to go elsewhere to study Year 12, because elsewhere is too far for me to travel.  ... View more

This driver got into contact with me through SnapChat. He issued me his username. I begrudgingly accepted. I really didn't want to as I never really liked him. I do not understand as to why I accepted this request. I thought I saw a friend in him. It turns out that he is a creep who was trying to force me into sex with him. Below is a list of things I would encounter on a customary day, be it on social media or as he is driving the bus:   - He would toot his horn at me in order to get my attention. - I was seated at a bus station once and he had driven past me. He saw me, and was driving to the bus terminus. Once he arrived to the bus terminus, he alighted his bus and walked five minutes from where he was to see me.  - He was moving houses last year and he wanted to find a house with a pool. His intention was to invite me over for a swim because he wanted to see me in my bathers. He told me he wanted to take them off.  - He told me that I could feel him, if you know what I mean. - He's told me that he would "get excited," if you know what I mean, whenever he would see me on his bus. - He had previously spoken to me about his sex life with his wife and with other women he has had sex with in the past.  - He has sent me videos of his genitals. - There have been times when I have ceased conversation with him in order to go and have a shower. His response would usually be: "okay, I'll try to not imagine you naked."  - He likes to talk about my body and the fact he has never seen it naked. - He likes to talk about sex. - He is delusional to think that we are friends. I have told him on multiple occasions that I was interested in another man, a colleague of his. - He threatened to report me to the police for being a threat to his marriage, even though he was actively cheating on his wife. - I told him we was obsessed with me and he became agitated and provided me with two dictionary definitions of what it means to be obsessed with someone, and then he claimed that he was not obsessed with me.   I need help. How do I go about reporting this man?  ... View more

It was New Year's Eve last night, and he was at home, all alone. I wish things were different between us. I wish we were friends. I would have loved to have spent New Year's Eve and New Year's Day with him. I would love to have been snuggling up in bed with him, watching television or something. But this was never going to happen. He treated me so poorly. He would call me names, he would ostracise me or interrupt me as I was trying to have a conversation with him, he has an intervention order against me because I used to stalk him out of admiration and adoration (and he knows about how I feel about him, too.) And yet, he used to flirt with me! He used to stare at me with adoration, I used to catch him murmuring under his breath after he would stare at me, he's even taken a photo of me.This made me think that I was attractive to him. But I guess that was all a facade? ... View more