🔴trigger warning🔴

here’s a little bit about my story and why I’m taking part 💙

After really enjoying the mind challenge I did back in January of 2025, I have decided to take part in another this September. Starting from the 1st September to the 30th I aim to complete 60miles and raise the target of £200 in donations 💙. Raising awareness for mental health and mental illness but also sharing my personal journey! I am going to do this by walking to the same bridges I once stood on wanting to end my life, then when I get to the bridge I aim to complete some miles jogging from end to the other,not only to mark how far I’ve come on my journey but to show people the true reality of mental illness. I will be documenting it all on social media! It would be amazing if you could donate, I’ve put the link on this page! Thankyou Casey!.

In 2019 I had just finished college. I was coaching and playing my favourite sport ⚽️ I had my own little 1-1 coaching club and spent a lot of my time on a field with a ball, I absolutely loved it and had many goals and dreams for sport coaching.

Unfortunately in October 2019 a month before I turned 18 everything changed…. I was a different kid, a different person, mental illness took over and I was suddenly a 17 year girl that didn’t want to live another day, a daughter and a sister who would have done anything to leave it all behind and give up on the dreams she once had. In November I turned 18 and was very quickly met with an adult psychiatric hospital, in which I spent 6 months. Those 6 months ultimately shaped the next few years of my life, as I spent more time in hospital seeing,hearing and feeling things too dark to describe. On the outside I was deemed too unsafe, my constant effort of attempting to take my own life became normal, bridges weren't to join 2 sides, they became my favourite way out… a place where the pain would end. Now In 2025- a year I never wanted to see; The trauma still lingers, The pain still remains, The scars won’t fade, but they show the strength I’ve made.

I’ve still got a long hard fight ahead of me, but as I always said “I’ll keep my fighting my fight”