I received help for dealing with stress – taking up meditation and learning breathing exercises to help me stay calm and avoid going into stress response.
I wrote a letter to Commesso, saying I would set up a bank account for the girls and spend any money I received helping Shamsia and the school.
The support, warmth, care and love I received helped me escape my reality, which consisted of sexual, physical and emotional abuse from members of my own family.
I occasionally receive help from some of my relatives and those of the orphans for school requirements.
It is not just the expert doctors at the hospital, I also receive help from a specialist nurse, dietician, speech therapist and occupational therapist at our home.
I would not receive help when I articulated it poorly, nor when I articulated my needs clearly.
I am not used to needing help and now, in this somewhat impaired state, I need to receive help while expressing my thanks openly and sincerely (eye contact, kind words).
My father was recently in an accident and is now unable to work, so I cannot expect to receive help from him any more.
That I have to struggle with public authorities in order to receive help when I already have my hands full with my own problems.
