Sharran builds resilience in partnership with her

Trigger warning: Sharran’s story talks about mental health and end of life. Sometimes words or images can cause sadness or distress, or trigger traumatic memories for people, particularly survivors of past abuse, violence or childhood trauma. For some people, these responses can be overwhelming. If you need to talk to someone, support is available.

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Sharran lives with ill health, including mental health related conditions, which created barriers in her everyday life. With assistance from Life Without Barriers Non-Acute Psychosocial Support program (NAPS), Sharran found the support she needed to build her capacity and resilience.

When we sat down with Sharran and her Community Rehabilitation Support worker Heidi, Sharran, with courage and humility, generously shared her experiences of living with ill health, including mental health- related conditions.

“My ill health affects my brain language. It keeps telling me I don’t want to be here,” said Sharran.

“To start of with, I was very overwhelmed and did not know how to deal with anything really. With the mental health team and Life Without Barriers coming, helped start everything moving.”

“I didn’t think I was anything or that I did matter. But as I go along, that my response and how my story is, that it does matter. For people to see because that shows that it shows that there is life beyond bad points.”

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Video: Sharran and Heidi sit on a couch in Sharran's lounge room, talking to the camera. This video has captions and sound.
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