My name is Jordan, I'm 22 about to turn 23, and I live in Roseville.

In high school I started self-harming and I withdrew quite a lot and then I got to year 12 and I took on three major works, 
which was probably a very bad idea, and I ended up moving out of home actually, because my home life was just so disruptive and that's
probably the most alone I've ever felt.

I somehow managed to finish and I got into Media at university and then I started doing that. By this point I was actually living
with a long-term boyfriend of mine, and he was very supportive at the start and really helpful but I just started to really backslide,
like my depression just got on top of me, the anxiety got worse and I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality.

I went on to ReachOut and I read a lot about it and it just helped me understand because it was written in a way that I could understand.
I started failing my way through university quite a bit and in the end my boyfriend I think just found it a bit overwhelming and
he broke up with me, which let me massively backslide. That was around the time that I first tried to kill myself.

My mum actually suggested that I admit myself to a psychiatric hospital, and I was there for a couple of weeks. I actually found that
really good because it set me up with a routine, and I met some other people who I actually could connect to for the first time in my
life. And they understood and there were psychologists there and that was really helpful and I thought I'd sort of gotten back on track. 

Came out of hospital and I just sort of slipped back into my old ways. And then sort of out of nowhere I started doing CBT with one particular
psychologist and I found I really connected with her and she was really helpful and started giving me a lot of tips and techniques to
sort of manage my depression and anxiety.

I was on a different kind of medication as well, which I think helped. And then with ReachOut as well I learnt a lot about the
self-care sort of aspect, and then I've started doing this volunteering with ReachOut whichI've found has given me a lot of, like, it's
made me happy actually.