Being diagnosed with major depression and anxiety at such a young age was a lot. It was even more when they attached the labels substance abuse and alcoholism with my name…

Dear Future Me,

Looking into the past, there’s a lot of fucked up shit that happened to you…

I was not born into your typical family of middle class, my mother was a heroin addict and my father wasn’t around and I have one sister who is ten years older than me. I was born in a very small town called Moe in Gippsland Victoria.

I wish this was linear; my healing. Sometimes I wish that I could snap my fingers and be okay. I want a medicine that will fix me in a blink of an eye. I want to wake up one day and not be afraid of the mess I’ve created inside me. That’s the thing that I’ve learned though. Healing; is in fact not linear; it is a forever ongoing process.