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Shelly’s Story Shelly’s story on how mental illness affected her and her family “When I first started feeling sick, and not able to cope I was ashamed to tell people that I was struggling. Mental health has such a stigma on it, that it really does feel like you are alone some days It feelsRead more

Terry’s Story Terry’s story talks about how mental health issues affected his whole family “Shelley used to self harm. One day she just had a complete breakdown she just stopped functioning as a person – she just stopped. And it was like holy crap, what do we do now? Like where do I go?  WhatRead more

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

Neenya’s Story Neenya’s story tells how mental challenges affected her family and her as a carer “I took her in to see the doctor, and was pretty amazed when he said she had schizophrenia. I wasn’t aware of just how much impact on myself and her and the family. In those days there was noRead more

Regional Stories Arnold's Story Terry's Story Robinson Family Story Neenya's Story If you or someone close to you is affected by a mental health condition and would like to have a chat or find out more about the free services available for you please get in touch below or free call us on 1800 811Read more

Kay’s Story Kay tells her story of how mental challenges affected her daughter and her “I guess I was a bit scared because I didn’t really know much about mental challenges. The hardest was taking over looking after the kids which was just thrust on to me. It had a big impact on me likeRead more

Melanie’s Story Melanie’s story tells how mental challenges affected her and her family  In my teenage years I noticed that my family members were a bit concerned about experiences that I was having so I was quite young at the time. Having these experiences needing to go and see professionals meant that I wasn’t ableRead more

Robinsons Kid’s Story The Robinsons Kid’s story talk about how mental health issues affected their whole family “I think the hardest thing was when Mum kept on staying in bed and when we got home from school we would have to run around and get stuff for her. I would get the other two up forRead more

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