This section contains personal stories from people who have experienced mental illness. Please click on the links below to read more about each story. We hope that they can provide an insight into the many different kinds of mental illness that people suffer from.
I had been suffering from depression for over 30 years. Frank and I married in England. I was a happy person then. We returned soon after to my home place in Clare and it was then that my problems began. We started our family of seven children and as time went by I was getting less and less happy with myself and with people around me...
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There have been many milestones in my life. A lot of them in my younger years marked the beginnings of traumatic and negative experiences. Thankfully, the last eleven years have heralded a new start and a new life...
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