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The Lives You’ve Changed – Su’s story
The lives you’ve changed…
Su’s story
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Su works in a pastoral role at a sixth form college. During the early stages of the Coronavirus pandemic she found working remotely and not seeing her students face-to-face very difficult.
After a traumatic safeguarding incident took a big emotional toll, her human resources department told her that she could get emotional support from the Education Support helpline. Su called and spoke to one of our specialist counsellors about the incident. She said:
“I knew I needed to talk it through with someone soon after it happened. One of our students took their own life and we had had no indication that anything was wrong. It was a shock for the whole school community. It was taking its emotional toll on me.
“I also felt quite isolated dealing with it during lockdown. My senior colleagues were struggling to deal with it and I just felt I needed some support to keep me going and to give me some perspective. I wasn’t sharing that I was going through a difficult time with anyone outside work.
“The helpline counsellor gave me permission to feel what I was feeling and that I wasn’t burdening anyone. I would say to anyone considering calling, don’t feel that it is a sign of weakness. Get in touch as soon as you feel things aren’t right as it really helped.” Thanks to donations from supporters like you, we can be there to help people like Su through these extremely stressful situations. If you or anyone you know might need us, please tell them to get in touch. Nobody should go through these things alone.
