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A smile can hide a whole lot of pain! 🙃

I got used to faking my smile 😃 putting on a show pretending I was ok. I'd always be the loud funny one but inside my head was a different story.

One year ago I was at my ultimate lowest, I was battling so much in my head and I just didn't want to do it anymore. You can have the perfect family, the perfect life, the perfect job but none of that matters when anxiety and depression take over.

So many people don’t talk about this stuff, they keep it all bottled in because of the stigma around mental health but by opening up you can take back control. Struggling with your mental health doesn’t make you less than anyone else, doesn’t discredit your work or success, it doesn’t make you weak or a failure 

It makes you human

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Red Balloons is a charity that combines physical activity along with talking and are helping so many people, all the volunteers have lived experience and are trained to give peer support. It's such an amazing charity. Next month is 'Marathon in May' and people will be walking, running or cycling 26.2 miles in the month to raise funds for the charity. I've decided that instead of cycling 26.2 miles in the month, I'm going to do 26.2 miles every single day. 😅

So many people are on waiting lists after being referred for councilling that desperately need someone to talk to NOW and Red Balloons can do this.

Please please please if you can donate to my fundraising page, no donation is too small, every penny counts and goes towards recruiting and training volunteer peer supporters. 

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