Now then, where do I start here? For some of you this will seem old news, but to others I hope that you can see that my own story  has only just started.

So to begin.... well I got married young, had one daughter and many, many years of verbal, physical, sexual and psychological abuse daily within a relationship. My experiences changed me from a young confident woman to a person with 2 sides, one for everyone to see that was happy and laughing and friendly. The other side was a severely depressed, beaten, scared (or should I say terrified) victim of domestic abuse who was also psychotic and self harming and who had several periods of involuntary in-patient care in a psychiatric hospital.

After I left the abuse, it has taken a very patient man 10 years to see me for who I really am, and slightly longer for me to realise that I do not have to be a victim anymore, I could choose who I saw and when. I could choose my own friends and have some financial influence. Ok, this sort of financial independence went to my head a little and I caused a lot of problems, but this is getting back to normal now.

The end of the start was a hospital stay in 2010 that made me think about who I was hurting with my erratic behaviour and realised that those people were the ones who love me unconditionally - my family. I decided then that I must turn my life around. I couldn't do this on my own, so I found a very good resource with the help of a good friend, and now just over a year later I have finished a college course with good grades and hold a University offer (unconditional) which I am taking up in September 2011 for a Degree and I intend to get my degree with the best result I can. I plan to get a 2:1 or Higher. Not bad for mature student.
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