TRAPPED IN A BUBBLE

The Shocking True Story

I escaped once. From that house. That street. That place. And my parents.

As a teenager - struggling with my sexuality after years of bullying and abuse - I left home and moved to another city, put together a new life and became a different person, while keeping my mental health struggles hidden from everyone.

I came out and made friends. I fell in love and was cheated on. But it was life and I was finally getting to live it.

Then a violent attack changed everything, so I ran away from it all. I moved abroad on my own. But even on an island in the sun I couldn't escape myself or my past. So with nowhere else to run, and no vision of the future, I went home.

But, being back in my childhood home after so many years, I had to face why I'd been so desperate to escape in the first place.