Beacon House

This voluntary program serves young adults with mental illness, and takes referrals from across the province.

I don't think I have been a patient at the Beacon program and I don't really know how long it has been running. I was very depressed when I came out of a second vehicle accident. I took nerve pills and sometimes even Demerol to get me through the really bad times. When I got home after the first accident I must have had some brain damage because I couldn't talk right. Words came out jumbled and not understandable. I would have to excuse myself and wait for a while and then if I would take my time I would be able to speak better.

Even today when I want to give a five minute bible reading I have to read it a dozen times to get so I can remember much of it and then I can read it fine. It did take some getting use to but I've endured and still have to take nerve meds but I can get by so that is as much as I can expect in a world that doesn't understand the pain you suffer when taken out of the work field and thrown to the lions of government bureaucracy. They give you a little and then you are alone again to face the problems as a person with physical and mental disabilities.

We definitely need programs like this one to help us in our endeavor to be just close to normal and to be treated with kindness and not pity but love without hypocrisy (Agape Love). Help all you can because you never know when it may be your turn to walk those burdensome streets into oblivion or very close to it.