I’m not going to say I was open to everything. Staff suggested mental health services, and I told them they were crazy. But they broke it down for me: [Mental health services] are not for crazy people. It’s for people that suffer from trauma. People who need to talk about the stuff that happened to you; stuff you need to talk about. That was my first big leap into starting my life. They gave me a little bit of hope I’ve never had before. Since then, I’ve been doing what I gotta do.”
