#vatbpositivity

3 years ago I was struggling through my first year at nursing school, and he was away in the military. We were thousands of miles apart, and I would wait anxiously with my phone on loud wondering when he would next get signal to call, when I would next hear his voice. Scared in case I missed the only call he could make in the 6-9 weeks he was away.

Now look at us. Long distance relationships are hard, they’re tough, they’re agonising, they’re painful, they’re draining, they’re exhausting and they hurt; but as I sit beside him tonight I realise it was all worth it.

He is now working constructing bespoke studios and I am a fully qualified nurse and I couldn’t ask for more in life.

If you ever feel like life is going nowhere and you feel like you’re fighting for something that’s so out of reach, remember my story and remember it gets better. It’s all worth it.

Thank you for asking this. I could write paragraphs upon paragraphs about my recovery journey and I appreciate being asked this.

In brief, I have my bad days where I relapse and some days are tougher than others but I work hard every single day to continue. I have learnt a lot about myself, why I feel the way I do and why I do the things I do, and I’m learning to accept these things.

I have an amazing support network of family, bestfriends, my boyfriend, my manager at work, old friends, my doctor and my community mental health team.