Your Story
Why Share Your Experience?
Sometimes just writing it down helps. Getting it out of your head and into words can shift something, even if nobody ever reads it.
But if you want someone to read it, there is a place for that here.
You can share as much or as little as you want. You can send it in parts. You can come back and add more as things change. There is no right or wrong way to do it.
Scarlett
Submitting my story helped me feel heard in a way I had not experienced before. Writing about my experience with binge eating allowed me to organise my thoughts and recognise patterns I had not fully understood. Knowing that my story could be read by someone who understood made the process feel meaningful.
Before You Submit
Your story does not need to be polished. It can focus on:
Early patterns or conditioning
Periods of escalation or change
Barriers to finding support
What helped
What did not help
What you would want others to understand
Prefer to email? Send your story in your own words and in your own time to
[email protected]
You can send it in parts. It does not need to be completed all at once.
How Submissions Are Used
Your story has somewhere to go.
It will be read by someone who understands what you are describing. That is enough.
All submissions are handled confidentially.
Life in Person is a non clinical peer support and education platform.
Submissions do not replace professional care.
This service provides peer support and educational services only. It is non clinical and does not provide medical, psychological, or therapeutic treatment. It is not a substitute for professional care.
This service does not provide crisis or emergency support.
If you are in Australia and experiencing an emergency or crisis, please call 000 immediately.
For mental health crisis support, you can contact:
Lifeline on 13 11 14 (24/7)
Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636 (24/7)
