"I felt embarrassed and ashamed"

I have been with cavendish mendical centre from a baby. I was sexually abused and traumatised and no medication was helping so I done what I now wish I hadn’t, I numbed the pain. I was addicted to pain pills, 20+ a day. What you would call a functioning addict as I always maintained work and was social.

So there are 3 people I’d like to thank really:

Dr Burke- for not judging me and getting me into Wirral ways, they’ve been amazing.

Dr Y- for being so so compassionate and motivating me to keep going. For humanising me when I felt like a failure.

Finally, I didn’t catch her name but the receptionist who got me into see the doctor and when she asked what it was regarding I felt embarrassed but I was honest, I told her I’m tapering and struggling and she said - you’ve done amazing, to go from X amount to less than half your dose is absolutely fantastic you should be so proud. She didn’t know it, but those words made me smile for the first time in weeks. Whoever you are, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for not judging me and being so kind-hearted. You have really made a difference.