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Zhiying Chen: New experience in Sheffield

The foreign community is a part of Sheffield, including businessmen and international students, and in addition to local restaurants, there are also many foreign restaurants in Sheffield, such as Chinese and Turkish restaurants. As a foreigner, I came to Sheffield last year to start my master studies and it was my first time to live … Continued

Mia and Jessica: Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder

We’re a DID (dissociative identity disorder) system from Sheffield. We started ‘working out’ that we’re a system in 2019 when Amber, our host (the alter who lived most of the life), remembered early traumas while training in myofascial release, aged 36, after years of depression and anxiety. Just over a year later, after spending much … Continued

Lucy Hamilton: Am I Really Like That?

It is often asked what advice you would give to your younger self. We come up with answers like – stop being so hard on yourself, or trust that everything will work out, or perhaps invest in bitcoin. This advice is easy to give in hindsight. At the time though, it can feel impossible to … Continued

Kelly’s Story

Kelly’s Story Age: 25 (came to Sheffield in 2006 from Zimbabwe) I lost my brother when I was 8 and I became very depressed and it got worse when I lost my sister too. It was more like a trigger or something. I am afraid of losing people. I think it was after my sister’s … Continued

D’s Story

Anonymous’s story (we refer to him as D) Age: 20 Black/male I started having mental health difficulties about 3 years ago when I started uni and was exposed to adult life, pressure, and stress. At the beginning it was like manageable stress and general anxiety but gradually it became like being paranoid, it was like, … Continued

Alex’s Story

Alex’s story Age: 28 Male (from Eastern Europe) I moved to the UK about 10 years ago. In my home country I am still part of an ethnic minority group which means that sometimes I am confronted with the idea that I don’t belong there. Here, in the UK, I am a foreigner, so sometimes … Continued

Ursula’s Story

Ursula Myrie and Her Personal Journey Trigger warning: references to sexual, physical, mental, emotional, and psychological abuse. I am a survivor of historic rape, sexual, physical, mental, emotional, and psychological abuse. In my community it’s common because parents, grandparents and great- grandparents have been abused themselves so it’s something we don’t talk about it or … Continued

Graham Morgan: Learning from Ken Kesey

I never admitted it at the time, but I was incredibly proud to be the first director of McMurphy’s in Sheffield and very guilty for feeling proud. About 35 years ago maybe more, there was an organization called Halfway House whose mission was to provide community housing and support for young people who had left … Continued

Trish Chester: Warrior

Warrior Weakened and battled scarred, she whispered to her soul, Asking, ‘am I willing to tolerate this abuse any longer?’ “Rise up and fight, reclaim yourself” the spontaneous reply Roared, as it intuitively burst forth from her broken self Instinctively, she reconnected with her dreams, her goals, Opened the box containing her long imprisoned self … Continued

Haley Eyre: Silver Linings – Magpies Love Cheese

Hello, I’m Haley, I’ll be your Writer today. Who am I? Now that’s a question, with a long answer but here are three facts to start with…I am a Woman, Wife and Mother. This is my first piece of writing for Sheffield Flourish. I wrote the first draft before the First Lockdown; quite a lot … Continued