I Actually did it!

Well done @Queenie 🙂

Thats super news and must be so exciting for you to be done and have other options avaiable to you now. You have every right to be stoked after all the hard work and diffuculties you have had along the way and I'm sure I've only see the tip of the iceberg lol 🙂

Try not to party to hard now 🙂 Take care. 🙂

@Queenie I haven't been around the forums much lately and haven't been following the ups and downs that you have been through, but wanted to wish you a belated congratulations!!!

I am not surprised that you got the top grade. It is very obvious that you are smart, articulate and an incredibly capable person. You have the worlds most stigmatised mental health condition, you would have copped so much judgment and a 'set and forget' mentality from doctors and yet you were able to finish with flying colours as you say!!

Schizophrenia is rarely spoken as being synonymous with resilient, but anyone that has come through psychosis that takes you out of life for a few years is a very resilient person in my books. There's is no comparison to an experience like that, and the English language wouldn't be able to describe it accurately, well my vocab can't anyway. It certainly debunked a lot of assumptions I had made about what it would be like and it does make you a much more empathetic person.

Young and old would look up to you as a peer support community worker, you've already graduated from the University of Life with a PhD and having lived it from the inside will give you immediate respect from clients. You know the challenges and systemic barriers facing people with MI and you also understand traumatic loss and family breakdown. I would love to be your client and have you as my mentor, you will have insights that cannot be taught.

Best of luck and enjoy a celebration this weekend,

Corny xx

Well said @Corny and here here !!

You will be an amazing asset to your community and people in your care @Queenie

People can only 'learn' so much, you've lived and breathed it. It's a very different skill that you can't put a value or price on.

congratulations @Queenie , way to go my awesome friend xxxx

Just wanted to say congratulations @Queenie

You should be so proud of yourself. You did it despite all the ups and downs along the way.

Can you treat yourself to something special? I think you have deserved it.

Sooper Girl

Options and pathways opening up. Onya. @Queenie Knew ya could.

Thanks everyone for your kind words and support. It has meant the world to me! I actually had happy tears reading them! This course was a big gamble to see if I was capable of actually achieving a dream. Several times my psychiatrist told me to quit and just try and be content living on DSP for the rest of my life. I’m not going to believe just because of a certain diagnosis, I have to throw my life away and not have achievable goals.

Next stop is graduation 🎓 and kicking more goals hopefully.

@Zoe7 I’m tagging you here as I know you’ll have wanted to know that I made it!

Gentlen Hugs Q

@Queenie

@Queenie Congratulations Queenie!:Dxxxx

Oh @Queenie That is such wonderful news - knew you would do it Hon Your patience, commitment and courage payed off and now you have what you achieved out to do ....so happy for you. You will make an amazing community worker - you have so much knowledge, so much experience and so much heart for the role and that will take you a long way. Whatever you decided to do next year I have no doubt you will succeed at that too - follow your heart and do what feels right for you and no matter where this life we are living takes you - you have the support to follow your dreams.

To all those who did not believe in you - forget them - they do not matter - what matters is YOU did this and YOU proed to yourself that you are smart, capable and able to follow your own dreams - so much love and respect for you Hon - you have shown so many of us here with this achievement that anything is possible if you believe it is