New challenges
But new challenges were coming my way, I finished my primary school and found the move to secondary school hard. Then at Legacy when I was 12 nearing 13, they started telling me about the Senior Club and that I’m nearing the age to start that. I shut down, I didn’t want to have another change, when things were going well for me here finally. I could feel the anxiety come back, and my low mood was returning, there was just so many things changing – at home, at school, and now at Legacy – and I just didn’t like it.
The Junior Club Manager Mikhail spoke to my mum about ‘Transition Monday’s’ where myself and other Juniors could trial the senior sessions and get a buddy. I tried it, and didn’t like it, but he kept encouraging me all the time and introduced me to the Youth Workers that are in the Senior Club.
I was also told about counselling sessions in the Health & Wellbeing room and there were people from Croydon Drop-In that I could talk to about my feelings. It was nice to have this especially during the summer holidays.