by eFriend | Aug 31, 2021 | eFriend Blog Posts
Growing up, I idolized Steve Irwin. My favorite part of the day was switching on Animal Planet after a long day at school and watching The Crocodile Hunter. I know I know, that’s such a tourist thing! Honestly, celebrity deaths don’t faze me, but his loss felt...
by eFriend | Aug 31, 2021 | eFriend Blog Posts
After completing my HSC/Year 12, I went straight into the workplace. The financial realities of life were real. I did not have the opportunity to put myself through a full-time university degree, as I needed to learn what it was to live out of home and support myself...
by eFriend | Aug 31, 2021 | eFriend Blog Posts
For a large part of my life, I didn’t want to look at my emotions, I wanted to escape them. Most of the time I didn’t really know exactly how I felt, and I didn’t want to know. I couldn’t risk thinking about it and getting pulled deeper, it felt too...
by eFriend | Aug 31, 2021 | eFriend Blog Posts
When I used to hear the word depression, I would feel a great sense of shame. It would rocket me back to the memories of being curled up under the doona where I felt engulfed in a black hole. I thought I would never be able to find my way out of. I had a sense...
by eFriend | Aug 31, 2021 | eFriend Blog Posts
When trying to recover from struggles with BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder), complex trauma, and a brush with suicide; I found it difficult to find a therapy that worked for me. Most modalities felt judgmental, and didn’t take into account all the...
