Not Coping

West coast of Tassie @Bow

I should have a look I've been meaning to.

What do you think of it?

Yep, tassie @Birdofparadise8

Only 2 episodes so far, but I like it. Recognise a lot of the places cause I spent a lot of time on the west coast growing up.

Ah, okay I've only been up there a couple of times myself @Bow

When do you move to the mainland?

We moved to Sydney the beginning of 2003 @Birdofparadise8 I’ve now been on the mainland longer than what I lived in tassie for. Tassie will always hold many fond memories though! And I’d love to come back and bring my daughter for a decent holiday. Show her my home land.

That's so funny. That's the year I am born haha @Bow

Yes, Tassie is a special place.

You are the age I was when I moved then @Birdofparadise8

Hard to imagine life any other way now though.

Did you move at 19-20? What made you move, if you don't mind me asking?

That's even more funny as I've moved out this year to vic at 19 @Bow

Yep I was 19 turning 20 @Birdofparadise8

my mum remarried. He lived up here and I didn’t really have anything keeping me in tassie, so I moved up too. Fresh start. Planned to leave all my baggage in tassie… but unfortunately that didn’t happen!

We both did the same thing though I moved for uni, not because of my parents @Bow, as you know.

What do you mean by leaving your baggage? Did something happen in Tassie?

Yeah @Birdofparadise8 i experienced a lot of childhood trauma. My mental health started to deteriorate when I was about 18, that’s when I started to deal with my past, that’s when I first told someone about what happened to me.
I had kinda hoped that I would be able to leave it all behind in tassie, but that didn’t happen. And then more stuff happened a couple of years after we moved up here.