Richie's story

“For many years I had a hard time with my self-esteem and self worth, and a couple of years ago I was really struggling. I also had a bad back, and was off work, drinking too much and putting on weight. I’d been having counselling and was due to return to work when I had an incident on social media that really hurt me and led me to feel that I would be less of a burden on the world if I wasn’t here.”

“I stayed up that night drinking and going over it my head, and ended up making an attempt on my life. Luckily I was ok, but the counsellor I was seeing at the time referred me to James’ Place for some specialist help. I was paired with a therapist who I ended up seeing for around 7 weeks who really helped me, he made me see things in a completely different way and for the first time I really got to the bottom of where some of my issues and beliefs came from. He helped me to a place of acceptance and for the first time in my life I started to believe that I had a real future ahead of me. In fact I have so much more confidence and self-belief that I recently applied for and got a big promotion at work. I’m so glad I was referred to James’ Place, it really has been life-changing for me.”

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