SANE LINE
08457 678 000

MIND Helpline
08457 660 163

www.gm.tv

http://www.sane.org.uk/

http://www.nch.org.uk/index.php

http://www.mind.org.uk/

Helpful Organisations:

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
Tel: 0870 443 5252

British Association for Behavourial and Cognitive Psychotherapies
Tel: 01254 875277

If you're depressed you're not alone!

1. HELPLINES

NSPCC-
FREE phone on 0808 800 5000
Worried about a child?
Call the NSPCC Child Protection Helpline on 0808 800 5000
NSPCC- http://www.nspcc.org.uk/


Samaritans
08457 90 90 90
jo@samaritans.org
www.samritans.org.uk

Domestic Violence
Tameside - 24 Hour Help Contacts
In an emergency - you should always contact 999

The Police take domestic violence seriously and will respond to all incidents

Women's Aid National Domestic Violence Helpline:
0808 2000 247

Tameside Women's Project: 0800 328 0967
The Men's Aid National Domestic Violence Helpline:
0871 223 9986

Call helpline 0808 1000 900 (free & confidential on Mondays - Thursdays 9am to 9pm, and Fridays 9am to 7pm).
Or check out www.stopitnow.org.uk.

Call the helpline 0800 085 3330 (free & confidential,
Mondays - Fridays 10.30am - 3pm & 6 - 8pm).
More information and a list of regional support services on www.napac.org.uk.

ChildLine is free and confidential for anyone up to the age of 18.
Call 0800 11 11 (free and open 24 hours a day, every day).
www.childline.org.uk

If you have difficulty in hearing or in using a regular phone try the textphone service on 0800 400 222.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 4 both men and women contact or visit
CONTACT US

Refuge Workers :
Weekdays 9.00am to 5.00pm: 01509 237206
Weekdays after 5.00pm: 07976 392109
weekends / Bank Holidays: 07976 383041

Office: 01509 550317
Fax: 01509 552559
Email: info@lwa.org.uk

Outreach Worker :
Weekdays 9.00am to 5.00pm:
01509 552549 or 07773 399230

website: http://www.lwa.org.uk/myths.htm


NORTHERN IRELAND POLICE- http://www.psni.police.uk/index/advi...

GREATER MANCHESTER- http://www.tameside.gov.uk/
type in child abuse or domestic violence in the search area

SUPPORT WEBSITE- http://www.supportline.org.uk/

NAPAC- The National Association for People Abused in Childhood provides support no matter how long ago the incident took place,
www.napac.org.uk.



3. ALCOHOL AND DRUG SERVICES

if your partner or parents or you have these problems u can contact any of the followin:

FRANK-0800 77 66 00
7 days a week...24hrs per day

AL-ATEEN- 0207 403 0888
people who have been affected by someone else's drinking
from 10am-10pm

OREXIS- 0208 691 1233
18+
councelin and adive and support

CHARTERHOUSE YOUNG PEOPLE CENTRE
0207 403 1676
HELPLINES FOR: ABUSE + DRUGS + ACOHOL INFO 158 days ago

www.stopitnow.org.uk.

http://www.mass.gov/da/norfolk/domes...

I had to get professional help, I was really low and scared, I didnt want 2 live I stopped going out, I could not even speak on a phone (that may sound silly to people) I still have not beaten that yet!! I know I will 1 day,
I have an eating problem too, I have had it since I was 19, but some time last year I was told that my body was shutting down, I was going die if I didnt start eating, at xmas I weighed just 6 st, I was skinny, and I ached all over, coz I was so ill, it affected me in many ways, my memory, I couldn’t sleep, I would lie awake crying and wishing some one could take my pain away,
then I done something really stupid, I tried to hang my self, that was the lowest I have ever been been, I only stopped because my daughter came up the stairs,
it made me realise the bad men are not worth it, I had to get control of my life quick and before it was too late, it made me come to my senses, they were not worth losing my life over!!
I thought it was over!!! How wrong was I? about 4yrs ago I met some one new, I told him my story, he tried to help me over come my demons, I was with him about 6months then it all went wrong, he was not no different from my family,
I used to have a bad back, so he put deep heat on me to ease it, but when I woke up, (yes he got me knocked out with it) he was having sex with me against my will, it happened for about 6 months, each time I would wake up and he was either having sex with me or touching me places it was not nice!! he didnt always wait till I was knocked out, he would just wait till I fell asleep, then I woke up to having him on top of me, he was stronger then me I could not stop him, as a result I became pregnant, twice,
1 1st 1 was an Ectopic pregnancy, I nearly died threw that, then I was pregnant again but this time I miscarried, I was sad at the time, but now I know they happened for a reason, I would not have wanted a rapists baby !!Yes he got away with it I was not brave enough to go to the police!!!I now wish I was! I can’t look back at the past, but I can look 4 a happy future!!!
I kept it a secret 4 yrs I don’t really know when it started ,when I was 7 my uncle got caught doing things by my brother ,we always stayed there in school holidays with our Nan and auntie 2, my brother told them what happened they told my mum and dad, my Nan and auntie made me and brother lie 2 our mum and dad and say we were lying ,nothing got done either,
well I stopped seeing them there and then ,
when I was 12 my brother had sex with me!!! while this is going on my dad is abusing me 2 dad stopped when I was 15 and pregnant (not by any of them had boys force themselves on me at skl 2,at 19 I took an overdose, my youngest was 6 wks old at the time !!!!!but I still kept quiet, I only stopped seeing Nan and uncle and auntie but I carried on as normal with my brother and dad up until April 2 years ago
when I did tell some1 they blurted something out all hell broke lose, it broke my family, Ive seen councillors, I’ve even got a psychiatrist have no dad no brother!!! I m on tablets I don’t know how long 4 yet, I live each day as it comes I don’t go out, I can’t even speak on a phone!!!
So there is my life (yeah I missed some stuff out) I haven’t got long enough!!!!!!!! at the end of the day vie got my 2 girls and they are my life if I didnt have them I wouldn’t be here now I would have given up long ago!!

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