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Name: | Abbie Foster |
Age: | 20 |
Year of the Fix: | 2016 |
Location: | Norwich, East Anglia |
Campaign: | To show that it's possible to recover from depression |
I started self-harming when I was 13 after being bullied by kids at school.
It started with just flicking myself hard with a bobble on my wrist whenever I felt upset.
I don’t think I realised it back then, but I was using it as a coping mechanism.
It wasn’t until two years ago that I made a conscious decision to stop, after finding out about singer Demi Lovato’s own battle with depression.
I knew that if she could beat it, with all the pressures she faces in the spotlight, then I could too.
I needed someone to tell me that life gets better, and that someone was Demi Lovato.
Now I want to share my story too. The more people hear that recovery is possible, the more people are likely to believe it.
With Fixers, I’ve created a set of cards which encourage positive thoughts to help on the path to recovery.
Here is a list of Fixers helping me with this Fix:
Rebecca Williams
Rianne Francis
Michael Charlish
Holly Morley
Sam Barakat
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
'Ben'
Jack H
Sam Womack
Ethan Mcinally
Hannah Baker
Hannah Carter
Ben Simms
Fixers
Jade Kingdom
Jo Quinn
Chelsie Brown
Macauley Collinson
Meghann
Fern Lulham
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Liam Thomas
Olivia G
Mason Latey
Shak & Natasha