Success Stories

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thank you

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and we're on a visit to my GP she

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suggested that I join wise and she felt

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I'd be an ideal candidate for it and

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I've been suffering with Stress and

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Anxiety for a number of years and that

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was accompanied by chronic pain in my

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shoulder and neck and pain in my elbows

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pain everywhere and and also constant

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headaches and just sort of lots of

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niggly pains everywhere and despite

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having x-rays scans nothing significant

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has really sort of been been found so

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she suggested wise as being something

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that I could attend to find out whether

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there were different strategies that

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would help me to cope with everyday sort

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of symptoms

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one of my big problems when I started

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why advice

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um was fatigue and brain fog and fatigue

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constantly

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um I was fined and I needed to go to

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sleep nearly every afternoon and not

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just for an hour I could sleep for an

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hour two hours and two and a half hours

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and it was really hard and effect and on

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my my daily life and I do find that

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since doing the wise program we've

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talked about sleep patterns making sure

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that you get the proper amount of sleep

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but not just so many hours of sleep but

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also a deep sleep and I realized that

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probably I wasn't having the amount of

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deep sleep that I needed to function

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daily and so I do feel making myself

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more aware of having a good restful

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night is very important and since I've

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done that I feel as if I'm not having to

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sleep more in the day and I've tried to

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cut that out and get more day the

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activity and and I try to swim every

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morning and during the the week so five

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days a week I swim and I try to walk the

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dog with my husband as well and that has

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helped with my moods

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well I definitely think that I've

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learned a lot about self-care uh and the

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need to look after not just your body

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but your mind as well and we talked a

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lot about different apps

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in the group

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um mindfulness apps that I've used I

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think is called smiling mind

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um and I think our leader Dora sort of

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pointed Us in the right direction to

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make sure that we are finding time in

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the day for ourselves and quiet time not

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just sitting in front of the television

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but also taking ourselves away

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um to the bedroom and sort of you know

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sort of having sort of

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um sort of just sort of time on our own

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away from screens and I know a lot of

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our group did pick up on that the

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importance of not having your phone on

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not watching television and just sort of

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relaxing before you went to bed and

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obviously I've talked about sleep and I

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think that was a really good sort of

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suggestion for me

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um

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I've also used the get fit app

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um to try and improve my fitness level I

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swim every day and five days a week

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which is one thing and I also try to

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walk I'm definitely moving forward I'd

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like to continue with that try to lose

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the weights and use the different

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strategies and the toolbox from Wise to

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move forward and sometimes you tend to

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forget things that you learn on courses

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but on this occasion I do really want to

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make sure that I improve my health and

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and move forward and even though I know

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that the chronic pain is never going to

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go away I do hope that by using all the

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suggestions made to us in ways I can

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improve my daily life and be more

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positive about the future

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yes most definitely I've already spoken

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to a number of my friends who are

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suffering from different sort of

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conditions and they hadn't even heard

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about it and so I definitely think it's

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something that if they go to their gpe

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and they mention that they've heard

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about wise it's definitely something

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perhaps that they could be and sort of

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put put onto a course for them and I

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really do think yes I would recommend it

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foreign

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foreign

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thank you

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um so I was having some female issues

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um during the covered lockdown

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um that was continuing to happen so I'd

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been sent to the hospital

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um but whilst I was waiting for the

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hospital appointment my GP recommended

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me to have a look at WISE online and to

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see if it's something that I could

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benefit from so I spoke to my husband

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looked online showed him and we both

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agreed that it was worth a go

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it's helped me manage my

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daily life a lot better my medication

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wise

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um one of my tablets I'm on the side

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effect is very drowsy and I take it

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overnight so I was struggling to get up

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and be awake in the morning and talking

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to the group about it in the group

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setting they come up with like um a

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problem-solving skill when they said

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about putting the phone my mobile with

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the alarm on over the other side of the

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room so that I'd have to physically get

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up to turn it off and it's been about

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eight months now and I'm still doing

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that on a daily basis so it's helped my

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mornings start a lot better than what

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they were

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um

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knowing that I'm not alone

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even though we've got a lot of different

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chronic issues

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everybody in this group is understanding

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so it's having that support system of

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people that are going through similar or

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are going through the same as being an

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absolute

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brilliant thing for me

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um it's also made me aware to not be

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ashamed of what I'm going through

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and it's stopping me now from where I

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used to hide away a lot I don't I make

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implants with friends I'm going out a

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lot more since because although I'm not

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working and I'm I am signed off work

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because of my health conditions

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I'm not feeling like I need to just sit

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at home and feel sorry for myself that I

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can still have a life and this group has

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shown me show me that

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so some of the skills that I've learned

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is like the action plans so we write

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down what we want to accomplish how

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confident we are and how we're gonna

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achieve it and day that's helped me a

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lot and I still continue to do that

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um mine and more for for going out

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because I I do struggle with going out

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to a lot of my action plans to try and

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get me out of the house and so far

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that's what I'm using and my mobile

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being the other side of the room I'm

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still using that because it's still

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getting me up in the mornings so I'm not

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feeling like I'm wasting the day

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um

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the group itself the problem solving

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um if I'm stuck and I can't work out

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what to do I message the group chat that

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we've got going on between us

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as a group and they'll bring up ideas

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that I didn't even think of

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I talk about this group all the time

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with how much it's helped me and we

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touch on different things every week so

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even if one week it's not really for you

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the following week it could be something

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that could really help and hearing other

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people's situations in the group you can

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kind of think well actually that's the

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same as me as well and you could take

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things away from that and and the group

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as well the group you're in

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I I can't speak for other groups but our

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group is a very close-knit group and

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we've continued to stay in touch and we

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can will continue to stay in touch

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and so even if you don't really come out

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of any

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skills as such I hope hopefully you'll

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be like me and Come Away with a good

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group of friends

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thank you

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so around 2017 2018 I felt my mental

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health start declining

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um

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was having some issues at home

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a lot of mental and physical issues

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to the point where I started locked

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myself away at the house because I was

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so embarrassed of my

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at the time my my conditioner I wasn't

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aware of

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I suffer with severe sleep you know when

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I was on the verge of dying 40 times an

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hour which means

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my breathing would stop for 10 seconds

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or more in a in a in a period

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that

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deteriorated my mental health and caused

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some psychotic issues

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I tried the sweet brand of the carpet

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for as long as possible but it's only so

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long you can sweep it under before your

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trip

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I tripped very bad

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like I said I was locking myself away my

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friend would call me and say all right

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you're coming out and I know myself I've

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been going out I had no intentions of

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going out but I'd say yes they'd come

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and knock the door he wouldn't answer I

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wouldn't answer the phone

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it became a very very

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um

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not a nice person to be around and

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had a near Miss at home when I fell

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asleep with the frying pan on and I fell

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asleep behind the wheel the car so I

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thought right I have to do something

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about this I went to the doctors and

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they diagnosed me with severe sleep

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apnea in March 2022

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so I had neon a year off work

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they took my driving license off me

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and I needed to sleep with a CPAP

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machine which was forcing oxygen don't

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need to make into my lens

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to help with my breathing because my

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heart was working 10 times harder so I

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was putting stress on my heart making me

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more prone to heart attacks

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yeah it was quite scary and yeah I just

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self-destructed

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so I I had to

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do with the issues I knew was going on

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then once I'd been diagnosed I said I

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needed help from somewhere and I was

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recommended wise so here I am today

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it brought me out to my shell so I'm

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more I'm back to be well close to being

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the person I once was before I had my

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health condition it's help mentally and

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physically because now I'm out and about

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from a house I'm not so anxious about

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going out and being embarrassed of would

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I fall asleep here or fall asleep there

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and have people watching me

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it's give me the tools that I need to

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help cope with stressful situations

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breathing mechanisms

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yeah it's it's

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really got me back up to my shell and

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seeing other people as well for there

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are also here for the same reasons is

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it's nice so it's helped a lot

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well they've helped with Understanding

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Nutrition better which can be also a

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massive factor in improving your

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well-being there's this the breathing

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mechanisms about taking your time to

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think about what you're saying how you

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um

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how you communicate with other people

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yeah I think um

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definitely

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brought me back up my shell to be so I'm

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near enough to be in the personal

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everyone as well as again

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oh definitely 100 percent

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as blokes Were Meant To Be these strong

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you know providers and what have you I

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was one of those I thought I didn't need

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the help and that's probably where why I

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got the point of

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if I didn't come on on the course I

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don't know where I'd be right now if

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anything I'm

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I'm an example a good example of how

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it's helped

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I'm probably one of the youngest well I

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am the youngest bloke in in the group

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and

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it's it's a sad thing it's not more

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bloke young blocks here but I guess

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I want to give something back now to to

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wise and help promote the courses to

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help bring

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not just blogs but yeah like younger

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youngsters back into if they do require

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the help

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take you know to take a step forward and

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come but then that's when you're

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you know

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you'll move on you realize

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how beneficial this program is