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Sharon’s Story Sharon’s story tells how mental challenges affected her family  “Other people look at the person that’s got the illness and say “but there’s nothing wrong with them”, and then you try and explain it and they go, “but she is never like that” and you go “you don’t see what’s behind closed doors”.Read more

Simon’s Story Simon’s story tells how mental challenges affected his family “Well it’s impacted my life big time in the sense that it’s changed my social life, in the sense that I found that I had to look after 3 children who had a mental illness. The hardest thing I guess is  to explain toRead more

Tanya’s Story Tanya’s story talks about how mental health issues affected her family “I noticed that he started to change two years ago and I watched him all the time and then it was around Christmas time, in December that he had a bad episode and he was admitted to the hospital. I just broke down,Read more

Courtney’s Story Courtney’s story tells how mental challenges affected her and her family I was concerned about my mental health because I’ve got children to raise & I want them to be happy and healthy. I hated myself, hated the world.  And I labored for my kids but I have no love. My whole lifeRead more

Franco’s Story Franco’s story tells how mental challenges affected his ex partner and him as a carer It felt like a kick in the guts, I knew nothing about mental challenges and I felt like: What do I do? What’s going on? How bad is it? Is it going to be treated? I just feltRead more

Judith’s Story Judith’s story tells how mental challenges affected her and her family I used to do some terrible things, I would go into the kids bedrooms and rant & rave etc. I went into my daughters room one day and I found a little note where she had written some things about me andRead more

Patrick’s Story Patrick’s story tells how mental challenges affected his family and him as a carer “I felt very confused because her mental health issue came on very suddenly as a result of a car accident. Jude was really depressed and very anxious and I didn’t know how to deal with that. That was the hardestRead more

Arnold’s Story Arnold’s story tells how mental challenges affected his family and him as a carer “I have a daughter that’s got bipolar, a daughter that’s got schizophrenia, their mothers got schizophrenia. I love my family. I love being near them. I felt a bit jolted, when I know I wouldn’t be living a relaxedRead more

Catherine’s Story Catherine’s story tells how mental challenges affected her family and her as a carer “When you have a diagnosis for someone you love, especially a child it’s awful… you just want to deny it – it’s just not possible. Having a person in your life that was all over the place emotionally actuallyRead more

Talk It Out and YoungMinds Are similar programs with Talk It Out being offered in the Perth metro area and YoungMinds in regional WA. Every family is unique with different circumstances, experiences, hopes and strengths. At times some families will need a helping hand and Talk It Out / YoungMinds is here to assist whereRead more