Julie Cottingham
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Support My Walk for Mental Health Research
Did you know that 1 in 5 Australians experience symptoms of mental illness each year?
Mental illness can be debilitating and can have a devastating impact on not only those living with it, but those around them.
This October, I’m taking part in One Foot Forward to help reduce the impact of mental illness and suicide.
I'm walking to raise funds for Black Dog Institute to put ground-breaking new mental health treatment, education, and digital services into the hands of the people who need them most.
It would mean so much to me if you donated to support my walk.
Together, we can create better mental health for all Australians.
I'm walking in solidarity this October for Australians affected by mental illness and suicide. You are not alone. You see, Ive suffered with Mental Health for quite sometime if nit many years.. Over the years its taken its toll on me as a mum, partner, friend but mostly on me as a person. Along the way, I've had my seriously low days where I've not wanted to function let alone want to leave the house. I struggle from day to day, have good days but it all still sits with me day in day out. In the last couple of years have been a real test in itself. But I've been supported by my ongoing sessions with my psychologist and have been grateful to have a small minority of friends who have accepted me for whom I am. Of recent I've been trying to work real hard to get back some sort of what we call ' Normality '. So when I saw on Facebook the upcoming challenge, I thought it would be a great opportunity to set my mind a goal of completing this. And that in hopes by the end that I can start to regain my confidence, self esteem and worth by getting back to where I was motivated to do more than I've been doing of recnt times.