When I was 16 and living in the hostel one of the support workers I got on amazingly with told me about how she used to self harm and at the time it made me feel much less alone. They were very faded scars. But I'm not sure how I'd feel now if that happened.
Although my current support worker has disordered eating and has been on AD's and has to have diazepam from time to time, and one of the CC's I know is on AD's and it doesn't bother me at all because even before I knew both haven't been well I clicked with them straight away, they just got me and maybe thats because they've been through MH crap themselves. It gives me hope that one day even though my illness is life long I could become stable enough despite my history to get a job like they have.
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