A Suggestion to Complete Survey on Anxiety - A Chance to have Your Own 'Private Say'!

Sometimes completing survey on  how we feel, can make us feel complete that we are being  part of a community that can help  professionals understand how we all feel. Then, it shows the real trend of where we may be going. To me, it is a good thing to be proud of and a great sense of well being involved.

Try it yourself. Feel happy!

August's online monthly survey asks a few questions about anxiety. If you would like to complete the survey, please access Relationships Australia website.

July 2018: Recognising And Responding To Poor Mental Health - Relationships Australia

Click here for Details on Jul 2018 Survey Responding to poor mental health

Resources

Relationships Australia

Relationship support services are provided in each State and Territory.

Visit the website or call 1300 364 277.

Lifeline

A 24-hour crisis support service.

Visit www.lifeline.org.au or call 13 11 14.

1800 Respect

A National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service.

Visit www.1800respect.org.au or call 1800 737 732.

Family Relationships Online

Provides all families (whether together or separated) with access to information about family relationship issues, ranging from building better relationships to dispute resolution.

Visit www.familyrelationships.gov.au or call 1800 050 321.

Family Relationships Advice Line

A national telephone service established to assist families affected by relationship or separation issues.

Visit www.familyrelationships.gov.au/Services/FRAL or call 1800 050 321.

beyondblue

Provides information and support to help everyone in Australia achieve their best possible mental health.

Visit www.beyondblue.org.au or call 1300 224 636.

Kids Helpline

A free, private and confidential phone and online counselling service for young people aged between 5 and 25.

Visit www.kidshelp.com.au or call 1800 55 1800.

Mensline Australia

A telephone and online support and information service for Australian men.

Visit www.mensline.org.au or call 1300 78 99 78.

headspace

A national youth mental health foundation dedicated to improving the wellbeing of young Australians.

Visit www.headspace.org.au or call 1800 650 890.

Neighbour Day

An initiative that encourages people to connect with those who live in their neighbourhood.

Visit www.neighbourday.org.

References/Credits

Postmes, T, Haslam, A, & Jans, L. (2012).  A single-item measure of social identification: Reliability, validity, and utility, British Journal of Social Psychology, DOI:10.1111/bjso.12006

Batterhama, PJ, Sunderland, M, Carragherb, N, Caleara, AL, Mackinnonc, AJ, Sladeb, T. (2016). The Distress Questionnaire-5: Population screener for psychological
distress was more accurate than the K6/K10, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 71:35-42

We would like to acknowledge Tegan Cruwys, Research School of Psychology, Australia National University, for assistance with drafting the questions for the August Monthly survey.  The data collected in this survey may be used by researchers from the Research School of Psychology to examine relationships between distress, neighbourhood identification and the characteristics of neighbourhoods.

One Of The Best Things To Do Is Go Out With Others And Have Fun...

One thing that that makes people unhappy is loneliness, feeling lost, desparate or not in touch with the outside world.           😃

For whatever reason we feel sad (I find this a better word than depression), happiness rises. How happiness rises it up to us individuals. I have lived on my own, in my younger years struggling to save and it does feel lonely. I found ways of getting out of thos mood and that was meet new people, go out of your way and enjoy yourself and a new life and begining will start.

When I was first married, in was true happiness in an unbelievable world. Yet, my marriage was different and rarely heard of over 30 years ago. I married a beautiful lady called Nirmala an Indian Fijian lady, we supported each other, lived a very happy life together and built our lives up, with 2 wonderful now grown up children. 

Now almost one year coming one, when she commited suicide, it was so hard believe. From families, they believed that she was a strong character and always gave advice but took little in.  She hardly asked for any advice.  I believe from counselling, this is true that mostly the strong characters commit suicide as they hide their feelings. The mysterious sudden death is something I never saw coming and yes I have  felt so sad and you never get over it.



I must place my head high and move on with my life so I can emkoy my life. I have since met a wonderful lady that is my current partner and we both love going to the bussh, land our rivers and seas. This is so we can experince our wonderful mother nature that is within 1 hour drive of Mount Druitt and thoroughly enjoy it. Life can turn around from sadness to happiness and sometimes, we don't plan it, it happens.

I am hoping my eife is happy in my heaven or her after life and I know that with my new life and partner , I will not be  rembereing the good times I shared with my wife Nirmala. Be Happy! Going out is the best way to enjoy yourself, You have something to look forward for/too.

There are obviously other ways to enjoy yourself and meet new people, go to clubs where you are a member and provide volunteering services within the communiy,  if you are working  ou may go out for drinks/ outings with colleagues from work. Then you can meet individuals of the opposite sex and  go on bush, land, sea and river dates, go on coubtry rides. Just breath our fresh air, feel refreshed. Just feel refreshed......

This change of life from negative thoughs to positive thoughts, can happen to you if you feel sad....

The Less Stress The More Feeling of Well Being

You all know as we all grow up, we all have different types of stress levels to handle. Each stress level in pending how crisis in life appears and that is determoned by yourself.

In the early part of lives , our biological parents make decisions for  us and that is to bring life to us into this world by the Grace of God, no matter what religion belief you have. The there is the constant instant food and feeding, whilst you grow and adapt to bring a young child learning how to walk talk, run and make sentences. The  as we start to make judgement decisions, how do we eat, sleep and  keep our selves busy until we reach kindergarten. Then we start making decisions, trying to make friends, skipping lunch at school, learning more about life, educate ourselves - which  may be stressful itself.

We compete against our friends, classmates, we are told by our parents how to live life correctly. Then, as we head towards our teens, we tend to go against our parents, little being said of what you are doing or not doing. Everyone is telling us what to do and what happens after High School, but do they know how our mind is and it is sensitive.  We still want to make our own decisions.

Life is easy when happy times comes, but for happy times to arrive it take one or more people to make happy times happen. I think in our lives as we grow up there is a lot of us listening and feeding information and  a lot of others teaching us as parents/close families and teachers, how to improve our life and live life with neverending studying.

Yet, when it comes to decisions the simple decisions could be difficult and the hard ones could be harder. Every day we make decisions in our life to wake up, have showers, brush teeth,  make and have breakfast go to school/work learn or earn income, talk to your parents and close families. 

These are simple every day decisions we make - but as we are growming up and we are thinking about what career we want to take up, which partner will we go out with, marry and the decision of having children and raising a family, whilst supporting them are decisions  that may not be that easy.

We never know if it is the right thing/decision unless we try it and it should be  right based on others thoughts - it should be right based on your own personal feels and understandings. It we stew and hold back these decisions - it prolongs our thoughts of  it as a right decision? 

Soimetimes our body makes decisions to rest and sleep and that is good as long it is the required sleep, this makes us calm. The most important thing when making deisions is to remain calm even if we think it is wrong. So many times I think my decisions wrong, yet others accept it as right. Then my life is more 'Happy'.😃

Again, you know if it is a right decision and you will know if it is a wrong decision, And that wrong decision can be rethought of and changed to a 'Right' decision. At the end of of the day, if you have lived thoughout the day and survided, you have loved your decisions: life will will be so positive for  you. The quicker you make decisons , the easier life goes on a positive note.

The less stress we feel about decisions the more we are feeling of being well.