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Name: Grace
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Date: 09 Feb 2000
Time: 13:46:13

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I have worked within the field of disability for many years now, yet I still meet a variety of people who have a very one sided idea of ways to "help" people with a disability. I have always been very reticent in telling people that I acutely suffer from major depression, and have recurring lapses. Most people would not understand, in fact, those that I have already told have asked me why am I still working in a field that gives me so many triggers.

The answer is that life generally would trigger me, the only thing that gives me a degree of personal achievement is that I can assist and support others to overcome, or to live their lives to the fullest degree that they deem possible. I live as a worker on the edge, medicated to a greater extent than are my clients. I often sit and ponder that they have the better end of the stick, by having a recognizable disability that allows an understanding from the community, whilst people believe that I have it "all together". Little do they know or understand that I do not have it all together, I am often on the outside of both worlds, not understood by one, and not a part of the other. Which one is the better, if there is a better -- I don't know.

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