"Actually cares and wants the best for me"

In 2022 I had a mental breakdown and ending up having a psychosis and was in a children’s mental health unit for 3 months and I was diagnosed with psychotic depression during that that I was so lost and suicidal didn’t know what was real and what was the illness. I never thought I would be the same after the incident I talked about the old me being dead and gone.

From 2022 to the end of 2023 I was CAMHS which wasn’t suiting me because I felt like I was still being treated like a child but I feel like I matured because of what happened during this whole time I had slip ups and I never felt truly stable even with medication and therapy I always felt I could go of the deep end, I was scared and afraid of my own brain, the way I saw and still see it is my brain turned against me.

Beginning of 2024 I was transitioned to the adult servers with my mental health nurse called Debbie when the transition happened from children care to adult care I was going through a horrible time I felt so low and I was going to end it all it was my first appointment with Debbie it was the hand over my mum was there, a worker from the Mac X team and Debbie. I was in such a bad state I went for a smoke and Debbie came with me and I what I said I left her no choice she admitted me to carsview the same day. I met her I was in hospital again I was there for just under 3 weeks when I was out and met with her for an appointment I told her how much I hated that place and never wanted to go back and there and then she pointed out that i can’t let myself get that bad and not seek help or I will eventually end back there so it gave me a goal. I NEVER wanted to go back to a mental health unit.

From 2024 to the end of 2024 I had struggles and battles with my illness but Debbie’s approach to me was the perfect fit she’s herself willing to tell me stories of her past and current struggles to help me relate and her humour is great she fells like I’m talking with a mate bantering away for some appointments, it was truly a light in a dark time. I had many medication issues not finding the right medicine for me but with the help from Debbie and Doctor Pell finding the right meds for me.

Since January of 2025 to now July 2025 I have had no slip ups no weird thoughts or dark thoughts I have the prefect medication for me but Debbie is the best and my favourite nurse and professional I have ever encountered in my time of this journey she is herself she doesn’t hide it there is a real connection she’s not just giving the by the book reply’s she actually cares and wants the best for me and now I am out of the system better than I have ever felt in the last 3 almost 4 years of this nightmare 

Thanks Debbie