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Tessa’s Story Tessa’s story tells of how mental illness affected her “I think when I was just entering becoming a teenager, I started developing depression and anxiety. I think the hardest thing is knowing that you really want to be able to fix it, you really want to be able get out of it. YouRead 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

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

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