Real Life: I’m a bipolar youth worker

By Helen Cutteridge is the emotional wellbeing lead at Youthscape. She lives in Luton with her husband Jamie and an empty fish tank, as they are yet to find a new fish in need of a home. 2018-09-17T00:00:00

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When I was 12 a family member and I had an argument in the car. I don’t remember what it was about, but I do remember how it made me feel: worthless, a failure, rejected. That was the first time I remember feeling like this. It was also the first time I self-harmed.

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