I wanted to let you know that things can get better, I know myself how hard it is to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I remember sitting in a headspace reception once and someone was filling on one of those depression questionaires and I saw her marking the low end of the scale for everything. I was shocked, because to me that didn't seem possible, because to me the high end of it had just become, well, normal. But a few weeks ago I was sitting in my psych's office filling in one of those and for the first time ever I myself was ticking the low end for most of the questions, I'm not saying I'm 100% better, I have a long way to go till then, if I ever reach there, but I am far better and happier than I ever imagined possible.    Exactly a year ago on Wednesday I made my first real suicide attempt, and as a result was referred to our local mental health team. For the first 2 months things were a struggle, I found it really hard to open up to my psychologist, then things went downhil again and we had to involve my parents, something that I swore would never work and I was really against happening. In the end it helped, it didn't really change things much but I think it did stop my mum from pushing me as far as she used to. Gradually things slowly started getting better, I slowly started opening up a bit more and I've worked really hard on noticing the negative thinking patterns I fall into, so that I can recognise them when they happen and try and change them.     This Wednesday I delivered my first foal and while it is scary to think that if things had worked the way I wanted them to a year ago I never would have had the opportunity to do this, but I think it also shows how far I've come in the last year. To top it all off first semester this year I acheived my first 2 HD's and I'm hopefully heading for more this semester :)     ... View more

So I think all of us at some point in time will have experienced bullying. Whether you were the bully, the one bullied or maybe your friend was.  I know when I was in primary school I was the target of our year's bully, and it was really upsetting at the time and even now thinking back about it it is still hard but I have moved on. So my question is how do you deal with it? What are your tips for dealing with bullying, whether it's you or a friend? Who do you go to talk to?   Today I discovered that the people I am over here in England with have been bitching behind my back. Unfortunately I saw a text message in which one of the people told the other that I had said something which was completely untrue. And called me immature and "more difficult than a teenager". Seeing this hurt a lot and now I have at least another two weeks where I have to pretend all is fine, because well I have nowhere else to go. Does anyone have any tips on how to deal with this? ... View more

So I never thought I would be the person to post about feeling homesick, I mean I'm never overly happy at home so why would I miss it?... But I am currently over in the UK and what was meant to be a 3 week stay has turned into 3 months. And although I am having an awesome time over here and I am learning so much from being here (I'm training and working so not really holidays), I just sort of wish I was at home.    So does anyone have any suggestions to help feeling homesick? ... View more