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My mental health journey

Posted By daisy fields

"My mental health journey"

About: Lives Lived Well - Gold Coast

(as a service user),

Around late last year, I fell into a deep mix of anxiety and depression. Before I sought professional help, I started using marijuana to cope with my low moods. If I wasn't at work, I was using all day every day.

Not long after, I started getting help/medicated, I started getting drug counselling from Kylie with Lives Lived Well. I was sceptical as our appointments had to be over the phone (due to COVID-19), and I wasn't even convinced that I needed help to deal with my addiction.

I have had eight sessions with Kylie, and the progress I have made in those weeks, I believe is incredible. Not only has Kylie helped me with cutting down my intake, but we also really focused on my mental health problems surrounding my drug use. Each session I learned new coping strategies that have proven to work for me.

Kylie not only holds me accountable for when I make excuses, but she also shows zero judgement when I don't make my goals that we set together.

I look forward to continuing my counselling with Kylie, and will be sure to recommend her personally as well as Lives Lived Well to any of my peers :-)

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Response from Gerard Moloney, Lives Lived Well 3 years ago
Gerard Moloney
Lives Lived Well

Submitted on 10/06/2020 at 4:48 PM
Published on Care Opinion on 11/06/2020 at 8:40 AM

Hello, daisy fields,

Thank you for taking the time to tell us this part of your story - your engagement with Lives Lived Well and Kylie during the COVID-19 period.

It is good to hear that the eight phone sessions you have engaged in have helped you in the ways you describe; cutting down your intake, focusing on your mental health problems surrounding your drug use, and each session learning new coping strategies that worked for you. It is great that your doubts have shifted to try to take in what you have described as incredible progress. You own willingness to engage has also played a role along with Kylie's non-judgmental approach and holding you accountable for your decisions.

I wish you all the best in the with the continuing sessions with Kylie and with your life ahead. Thank you too, for recommending Lives Lived Well's services to others.

Warm regards,

Gerard

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