About FORTH

After a traumatic experience in 2019, the stability i had upheld seemed to unravel & I spent majority of the following three years within inpatient care. I battled tirelessly with the demands of post-traumatic disorder and depression, continuously striving to recover and get back to having a quality of life. The cycle of crisis and hospitalisation was exhausting not only for me but the people around me as we pushed every single day to keep me in this world. There was so many times that the mental health care system failed me and if i didn’t have the people around me, this system would have lost me completely. This confronted me constantly of the dire reality of my fight even in the most privileged of circumstance. I developed an intense fire of frustration and anger over the gaps i was facing, nothing ever changing even though i was working so hard and doing “all the right things”. I craved a resource that built sustainability in my transition from the hospital setting, an affordable way of trying a variety therapies and approaches, something that was realistic amongst wellness trends and considered a multidisciplinary approach to suit more genuinely to my life as a whole. FORTH is an image of my passion and soul, it reminds me of what it means to be human, and how lucky i am to be here, unlike many. FORTH is my responsibility as a survivor to make an impact, and i really hope that this will mean something to just one person. Read their story