18/04/2025
I am a su***de survivor 🫂
There, it's out there!!
It's all shared in my books anyway.
I don't say that with pride, but I also don't say it with shame.
It was 25 years ago. I was very ill with mental health illness. I was on a cocktail of 7, yes 7, psychiatric mediations at once, prescribed to make me 'better'.
They made me worse, physically and mentally. They changed my personality. I wasn't me.
So, on two separate occasions I attempted to take my own life.
I'm so glad that I wasn't successful. I was rescued by the Maudsley Hospital in London in the year 2000
My new millennium, and I've been in recovery ever since.
I'm proud to be a Baton Bearer and supporter of the Baton Of Hope UK tour when it is at the Baton of Hope Tour25 - Portsmouth stage.
I'm carrying the Baton as a reminder of just how far I've come in my healing journey and to give Hope to others. I've achieved so much since then.
My past has gifted me with the empathy and understanding to help my foster children and their families, many of whom suffer from mental health illness.
I'm also carrying the Baton in honour of two very young children in my own family who have both lost their fathers to su***de in the last two years.
Let's open up those conversations. Let's break the stigma. Let's make certain that others get the help they need and deserve.
Thank you, Lara Kynvin and Billy Stevenson for this morning.
My dogs, Dory and Hope, enjoyed filming 🎥 🐾🫂💙
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