Ingrid
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Reach Out helped Ingrid understand more about depression and how she could deal with it.
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Transcript for Ingrid's Reach Out journey
I guess a lot of people don’t really understand, or they’re beginning to understand depression and anxiety and mental health issues, but there is still a lot of misunderstanding about it because of the way it’s portrayed or what not in different areas of society.
You realise that, you know, it’s just an illness. It’s not... it doesn’t make you any less of a person.
Reach Out just helped me to understand what I was going through. You know, when you go to the Doctor and they say “oh you have major depression” or whatever, they don’t, you know, you kind of go, “well what does that mean?”
So if I could go onto Reach Out and read a fact sheet and go “oh so that what that means” and “that’s how that’s going to affect me.”
They use language that young people understand so it’s not like you’re trying to read a fact sheet about depression that’s written for a Doctor or written for a parent or any other kind a person, but it’s a fact sheet that is written by a young person so you know that you’ll be able to go there if you want to read a fact sheet you’ll be able to understand it.
Like reading other peoples stories and stuff on the Reach Out site made me realise that it wasn’t just me, like I wasn’t the first person to go through it and I wouldn’t be the last, and I wasn’t some kind of social outcast and crazy person or whatever.
I guess when I think about my journey from, you know, learning that I had depression and dealing with it to kind a being where I am now, the first thing that comes to mind is that it’s been a really long one and that it’s still continuing. It’s about making sure you make the right choices the right little decisions every day.
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