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I come to this comic shop about twice a month. When I come here it’s the…

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I look forward to it, I’m friends with the staff. I always have a natter and a laugh and that.

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And you know if I’ve got a question to ask, you know, they’ll answer it.

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What I love about comics is you immerse yourself in it all.

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Like, it’s all this imagination brought, just brought to life.

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The fact that I’d gone from having everything

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at the time I thought you know female of my dreams,

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I’d just got a promotion at my job, I was ready to move out,

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get down on one knee for her and then it all just went…

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…It just went.

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To me I didn’t really want to talk to people, ‘cos I thought

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if I did, I was admitting a sign of weakness

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and that, that’s what it was and I was more scared of getting shunned.

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So I just kept my mouth shut and buried my head in the sand.

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That few months I felt like, you know, I felt like I was fighting a losing battle, I couldn’t get out of it.

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I was keeping mysen in my room and that, you know, I just let it all get to me 

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and I kept it all bottled up and that’s when I did what I did.

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Some battles leave scars, some you can’t see.

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If I could go back 5 years and talk to my old self I’d be…

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Just don’t be afraid to talk to someone, if it does get hard, get it off your chest, don’t be afraid.

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I’ve gone to like group things and I enjoyed that because listening to other people’s stories and backgrounds

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and what they do to cope and how they get their happiness, you know what keeps them ticking over,

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that put things into perspective for me as well.

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I’ve had people that I’ve spoke to asking ‘how do I go about getting help?’

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and I’ve been able to say there’s this service and that service,

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and it’s humbled me but it’s also brought a smile to my face as well.

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When I’ve been reading my Star Wars ones and that, they have to make really complex decisions

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but there was one character and she goes “If there’s one thing I know, it’s my friends and family that make the impossible, possible”,

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and that hit the nail on the head there for me.

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I probably wouldn’t be where I am today right now if it hadn’t have been for them