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Share & Find Support

Welcome to the part that is dedicated to everyone who wants to hear experts’ and young people’s stories about mental health, and also share their experiences or find out where to find help and support regarding mental health questions, problems or issues.

Within this space you will find 3 different parts:

Audio Podcasts

Stories

Help and support

Audio podcasts with young people, youth workers and other educators working with young people and/or MH topics

Hello, here you can find audio podcasts on mental health topics. These podcasts are created with the help of young people, youth workers or educators from Croatia, Serbia, Greece and Italy and all of them have subtitles in English. You will have an opportunity to learn more about their experience, opinion and situation in their country.

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The space where you can share your story anonymously

Hello, here you can share your own story about your life, experience you have within the topic of mental health, something that helps you when you deal with your problem or just read the stories of others.

It is an anonymous space. Sharing your story can help you feel better for simply sharing, but also can help others to recognize that we all deal with some problems in our lives.

Share your story

Unmasking my emotions

I never understood how emotionaly illiterate I was, until my dad died. I took over responsibility for his funeral, because my mom couldn’t cope and my siblings are all younger. And I was fine for a few months, until I was just triggered by some paperwork that needed to be taken care of. I was missing some papers, and I just started crying because I was tired and frustrated, but then it got so terrible I was just lying in bed and continued crying and staring at the walls for three days, I couldn’t get up and also had my first panic attack because I got scared and couldn’t understand what was happening to me. Luckily for me, I had a very supportive work environment and a boyfriend, who immediately gave me contacts of different therapists, so after just a week, I started seeing a mental health expert. This experience taught me that you really need to give yourself space to feel the emotions and not bottle them up, because they’re just going to come up at some point and really jeopardize your mental health.

Locked in Fear

After COVID finally subsided and the lockdown was lifted in Serbia, I noticed that I have developed a fear of entering closed spaces. I stopped using public transport and taxis, I would go to the store only when I had to and I didn’t want to go out to cafes, clubs or restaurants at all. It went so far that my friends started avoiding me and stopped inviting me to do stuff with them, because they knew I wouldn’t go anywhere. That’s when I also started getting angry and enraged, because I felt like they didn’t have any understanding for what I was going through. My family convinced me to start seeing a therapist, so slowly I started going out again, although it took almost a whole year before I felt comfortable again being in public places, surrounded by people. What I had to understand is that we all have our own ‘timelines’ and that there’s nothing wrong with you if it takes you some time to heal and get over your issues.