NT annual review 2019-20

Residential and Resettlement Services | Annual Review 2019/20
place in society. I really am okay with
being me now. My mental health
still plays up but I can recognise it and
go out and get some more help. Now
I connect with others every single day.
I’m also a volunteer Peer Mentor at the
Women’s Centre.
To anyone out there struggling to get help,
who maybe doesn’t believe that they have
it in them to change but they’re desperate
to, I would say it is possible to get clean.
It’s possible to like yourself. There are
people out there who care.
You don’t have to be on your own.
Unfortunately there isn’t much funding
out there these days and not many people
get the privilege of funding for rehab. But
funders need to know that we are worth
investing in and that we are serious about
getting help. It is a real shame that not
more funding is out there to help those
who really need help.
So this is where he had escaped to, lost in the forest that hid a thousand
lies. Scattered around him on the floor, were his bags that contained
trinkets from the world he left. The forest had swallowed him whole, he
was safely ensconced in the womb of willow branches he had bound
together as a shelter from the elements. A fire crackled away in the
clearing that he had made for himself. He looked content and care free,
he had completely let go of the masks he had worn for so long. The
armour of the suit and tie, the security of the car, the house and the
steady pay cheque had disappeared into the chasm of the past.
Creative writing from a client.
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