“I think for the longest time I saw my mental health as a disease. For the longest time I was just like, why am I like this? Why me? But after I kind of felt comfortable enough to face everything head on, I was like, you know what? It can be a strength. I can use this to help others as well.”

“My main reason is for my future self. I'm still here today and I have a chance to rewrite the story and I am just doing everything I can, so that in the future it's going to be different.”

“Why is it important to tell your friends you love them? Because it gives them life. It gives them happiness. It gives them joy. It gives them power, and it gets them through the next day.”

“We know that mental distress doesn't have a look. It can happen to anyone. And just because it doesn't look like you are struggling or you don't seem like your life is that bad, your feelings and the way you are feeling is valid.” 

"I've never said thank you to him, but I ended up going back to him every six months until I started exploring Māori healing and my own culture. I wanted to be more connected to that through the healing aspect.”

“I don't think that BPD is talked about enough. It's not something that's understood enough and I think that it's something that people who have BPD, and who don't have BPD, understand that you can live a life with BPD in a way that you can be happy”