Yes @Appleblossom 

You might feel that it has taken some time to be heard...I feel for you in that area as am all too familiar with that feeling from family..

A young age of 10 trusting and feeling finally someone wants to help...to later be left behind as the numbers in need increase in a system with no training for caring for such delicate states of mind on top of such intolerable life experiences..

Resilience and persistence I believe are your traits also..

You are so wise and as my therapist tells me..know far more about mental health than the gps themselves...who have generalised training..

Today there is some change with more lived experience gaining employment within the field...hopefully to be respected...listened to and change to come for the better..

There is a long way to go

I am going to start a new thread..

I am fired up..

I hope that I do not get torn to shreds as some do when they write something different..

Take care all

will start the thread

then garden...😶