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Does anyone else come up with life events/timeframes that they say they have to wait to go though before they can kill themselves? I recently finished up a programme that brought me a lot of joy and have entered a new stage of my life and the urge to end it is just so strong, it just feels like...

Since my partner and I got together (three ish years ago) I have had significantly fewer bouts of suicidal thoughts. However, I have recently been finding myself having thoughts that if we ever broke up I would kill myself/the only reason I don’t want to kill myself is my partner. Obviously, I...

I have a few very specific triggers that I have asked my partner to avoid when it comes to intimacy. But I’ve found the more I try to avoid these triggering actions the more actions adjacent to those actions become triggering to me. The problem has gotten quite bad over the past few months, this...

I've been experiencing some of my worst depression in a few years recently. I feel pretty hopeless and like things will never get better. I have a great partner and a pretty good job and on paper my life is good but I still feel terrible all the time and my PTSD symptoms make it really...

Hi! I don't want to go massively into details but I would like to investigate this condition a bit more. Ideally, I'd like to read literature/resources from the victims perspective, for example looking at long term effects and adult survivors. (A lot of the websites/books I have found seem...

I am experiencing more and more trouble with sleep and was considering going on medication. Does anyone have any experience this this? What medications did you use? Have you had good/bad experiences and why? What questions should I ask my doctor? Also I am looking to get them on the NHS, so any...

I have massive problems with depression related to being able to connect with other people in my life. I’m very lucky to have some very good and caring people in my life who listen and who I feel comfortable sharing with, yet, when I am depressed I often walk away from conversations feeling...

Have recently started “It Wasn’t Your Fault” by Beverly Engel. The book talks a lot about how to heal shame imposed by traumatic events. I’ve never related to the concept of shame before but, after discussing it with friends, I realised I do experience feelings related to/caused by shame I...

I have had this argument recently with a lot of people I'm close to. I guess I just have a lot of beliefs about the world being bad, people being generally self interested, and things not tending towards getting better. Whilst there is evidence on both sides, I think I would find it impossible...

I am attempting the first of the recovery steps, to establish a sense of safety, however, I’m finding most of the resources I turn to jump straight into pretty triggering material which makes my symptoms worse. Does anyone know of any workbooks, exercises or other things I can try to help with...

Hi guys, Hope everyone is well. My clinic wants me to start trauma focused CBT. I've done CBT before and found it reasonably helpful but it's mainly been depression symptom focused and hasn't been very in depth into the past. I really want to give it my all but I'm really scared about the...