The Well

After my 3rd suicide attempt back in 2015, I didn’t understand why I had no outlook and my life was so negative. I was fed up and I wanted to change, but I didn’t know how. That same year, I started to look for the Lord and found Him on YouTube, through a Johnny Cash sang called “Help me Lord.” Listening to the song, I had tears running down my face and I cried out to the Lord of help. Throughout the following months, I was still doing the same bad things, but I noticed that whenever the telly was on, that my eye kept being drawn to Stornoway on the weather map. I remember telling myself that I was going to stay there, even though I knew no one and didn’t know how to get there. A couple months after making this decision, I came into some money that would allow for me to live on it for 2-3 months and travel to Stornoway. So, I booked my ferry and B&B and left my previous life in Glasgow. It wasn’t easy and after the week booked at the B&B, I was homeless. Thankfully I was connected with “The Acres” and had a place to live until I was able to get my house in 2019. I came to the Shed when I first arrived in 2016 and was quite shy and nervous, but through the Shed manager at the time, Murdo and the staff, I slowly started to open up. After being in Stornoway for a month, I gave up in drugs and alcohol for good and never looked back! After going to the Shed for a year, Murdo asked if I wanted to be a volunteer and after a year of doing that, I was able to get a job as a support worker for the Well program run by the Shed. I understand people’s pain, why they take drugs, alcohol, and attempt suicide, and I know that that pain is not good.  I hope and pray that I can help others who were like me, and that they can go on to help others. If it wasn’t for everyone at The Shed from day one, I really don’t know where I would be, but I do know that I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the Shed.