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bridietulloch
She/Her Joined Jul 2025
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After almost three decades of mental health difficulties and substance abuse I got sober six years ago. I entered treatment in 2007 where I started on a methadone program for opiate addiction. On leaving treatment almost five years later, I slipped in and out of recovery programs never feeling like I belonged anywhere. I found myself in rooms for adult children doing inner-child healing. I began to develop my inner loving parent so that I could learn to re-parent myself with love, humor, gentleness and respect. Prior to sobriety I never completed anything. I changed jobs, plans, relationships, and interests constantly. In 2019 I graduated with an undergraduate degree in Sociology & Criminology and had another episode of burn-out after studying Victimology. I had been in survival for too long and needed to re-evaluate my life. I changed my life path and went to do a post graduate masters in counselling. I graduated in 2022, it is my biggest achievement in life because it was such hard work to get to this place. I work with adults and children as a mental health counsellor for a charity in my local community. I have been learning to slow down after experiencing several episodes of burn out in my life which has left me unable to work, sometimes for long periods. Earlier this year I received my duel diagnosis of autism and ADHD for my 50th birthday, It has been and is still a lot to process, but I feel seen and heard for the first time in my life and my inner child is learning to trust.
I came to this platform because I discovered an amazing support group for late diagnosed autistic people and I wanted to connect with like minded people in a compassionate space where I could feel safe and learn to unmask.
I hope to bring my lived experience, hope and optimism. I hope to connect as I find connecting difficult because I am often out of energy resources outside of work.