Your Stories
My Story - Lauren
Posted by Top Livin on
This has been a long time coming. It's not easy when you want to talk about your mental illness and share your experience in the hope that someone somewhere will feel a little less alone but it's your mental illness that prevents you from doing that. I am a big advocate for taking active steps to look after your own mental health and that of others and have been an ear to listen to the experiences of my friends, family or clients without ever really talking about why I know exactly what it’s like. But let’s go back to the...
My Story - Kieron Douglass
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What you are about to read has been by far the hardest thing I have ever had to write. I was asked recently what my connection with Mental Health was... it kinda got me thinking that maybe I hadn’t been doing my job properly as an ambassador for mental health in raising awareness and letting people know that It Ain’t Weak to Speak. Here’s a brief insight into my journey . . . My connection with mental health started forming at a very young age. Witnessing its full effects firsthand with my mother deep in the thick of it. Exposed...
My Story - Dean
Posted by Top Livin on
It all roughly started in 2003. There were no warning signs or particular incidents that set it all off. Just unexplained reasons for feelings of worthlessness and serving no purpose in life. Staring at the ceiling and crying myself to sleep was just a normal daily routine. Dark thoughts were a regular occurrence. I would always find myself tearing my hair out, screaming to myself when alone. Why am I feeling like this? When will it stop? I was just a kid, I had everything a young guy could ask for and more. I came from a great big loving...
MY STORY - TYSON
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Invisible. Every morning feels the same. As I get up my head is full of confusion, feeling dizzy and worried what is going to happen at school today. Some days my feelings takeover my whole body and some days I wish I wasn’t here! On the way to school thoughts are rushing through my mind like raging buffaloes fearing for their lives. When I get to school I look at every person and see if they have the same feelings that I do, but I can’t see what they are thinking. At school I wish I was a ‘normal person’...
My Story - Jo
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R U Ok Day has been at the forefront this week, and my news feed has been filled with posts from Beyond Blue, so either the timing is coincidental or law of attraction has delivered again. Mental Health and the need to raise more awareness and support is a current critical discussion. To educate our youth, our men, our women and our community about the importance of strong mental health, and what to do when it doesn’t feel so good, is a conversation I’m thankful is happening. I will be the first to admit that I have felt a little detached...