Dawn Theresa Withers
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A great new life
About 2 to 3 years ago, I was living in community housing (otherwise known as the ghetto), in South Australia, Adelaide. I had just gotten over a series of mental health episodes ( lots of relapses of them). I was against taking the medication which treats my schizophrenia and did not trust the doctors or workers whom were only trying to stop me from relapsing.
By Dawn Theresa Withers5 years ago in Psyche
Coffee Mornings
One day I woke up and I had some spare money, I am usually not good at budgeting much... So I knew that I wouldn’t really save it anyway. So I decided to go on a trip to town. When I got to town, I decided to buy $5 worth of $1 coffee’s to hand out to the homeless, not only because I know what it’s like sometimes to have not much or nothing at all, I’ve been in their shoes before and I believe that just because a person is upset at something, it is most probably because they are hungry or, as some people call it “Hangry”. So, a few people accepted the coffees and I ended up drinking one myself, so I decided to buy another round and this time I bought $6 worth, so 6 coffee’s. Prior to buying the coffees I saw an angry homeless woman walk past and as I went to buy the second round I stopped to ask if she was okay and asked her if she would like a snack and a drink and that I undstood what she was going through. She accepted, so I bought her a Mars bar and an Up and Go before doing my second round of coffees. I even bought a packet of cigarettes so that they could have a cigarette with their morning coffee and laid them in the middle of the coffee holder. I went back towards were she was and she was still there, I offered her a coffee and she accepted, also another man joined whom had accepted a coffee earlier.
By Dawn Theresa Withers5 years ago in Humans
