Following On- Charlie’s Story

Following On- Charlie’s Story

Growing up I had a privileged upbringing, parents/ grandparents that would do anything to help me achieve what I wanted and for this I can’t thank them enough. I was lucky I was a natural at most things, picked up new skills/traits easily and managed to breeze through...
Following On- Charlie’s Story

Following On- Jonny’s Story

At first, I felt like I was just in some sort of rut, university was at a stage where the workload was steady but not overwhelming exactly, so my nights out were quite regular (minimum 3 times per week) plus afternoon drinks and trips to the Student Union bar for food...
Following On- Charlie’s Story

Following On- Kev’s Story

I first became aware I was suffering with depression in 2014. After several flare ups of my ulcerative colitis (with complications such as shingles and sepsis), each time after it looked like I was finally improving I got ill again, and began to get more anxious about...
Following On- Charlie’s Story

Following On- Paddy’s Story

Depression is a ruthless disease, which if allowed to, can have far-reaching and lasting consequences for any of us. From a personal ten year battle against the disease, I can attest to it being able to remove the ability to go to work, massively strain relationships...
No More Lies

No More Lies

“I am grateful to be an alcoholic.” It was those words that caused me to walk out of my first AA meeting. This is about how I got to that point on June 24th, 2016, what has happened since and how accepting I had a problem….an illness undoubtedly saved my...