 Don't let me drown Hello everyone, you're welcome back to my channel if you're new here Hi, hello, my name is Lydia Today I'm going out to meet up with my support worker who's taken me ice skating for the day and our last session and you know like it's that like I've been seeing this woman for a while we always go to places like we went to the V&A, went to Tate Modern now she's taken me ice skating for our last session and the role of the peer support worker is someone who has been through the system and knows it it's an experimental project that I agree to take part on and honestly it has it's made a difference like just knowing you have someone that relates to you and understands you it's amazing and I thought I'd love to die the only reason I'm putting this disclaimer in is because I posted on Twitter about how in my main situation it is obviously I don't have the money to ice skate in she is subsidising and paying everything I'm not paying any of it she's doing this as it's our last I'm probably gonna be quite sad later really because I've been seeing this in February and you know it's strange hey what's up you guys welcome back um I found out in a little clip in today kind of explaining what a peer support worker is that couldn't really explain in the vlog I didn't film much yesterday because it was my last session with that support worker and honestly it was so emotional like this is someone who I've been working with now for like since February and um I think the whole peer support worker thing works really well in my opinion like it's easier to open up because it's someone who's been through it it's someone who's been through the system and knows the system so they understand what you're going through honestly I did help a lot because I knew I had someone who actually understood what I was talking about and I've been really supportive it looks like it was really emotional yesterday meeting engage a person in social interaction if they struggle with social situations which I do um she's been a huge help and have made things a bit easier and get up more than I used to and it's an experimental program and I agree to do it in February while I was in hospital because I was very curious of it and just like curious to understand it and not with a lie I'm not that I was not disappointed it's arguably one of the best services that I've used um I can't even remember how much it's helped me not only I it was a day that I looked forward to because I met everybody this day um I also forwarded it because she understood me and we got on really well and it was it was strange just to me ice skating was funny but I did fall over I have really hit my head um it was nice it was the time and it's a good program I really do hope it becomes more mainstream for service users nice to know that you have someone that understands you and what you're going through and that's kind of all I want to add in I didn't want to leave this video like like 12 seconds really long so yeah if you aren't here hit subscribe button and let's see whatever my life takes us it's a good outro I like that let's see what my life takes us I'm gonna write that down I like that for now it's a good outro um I have a Patreon in the descriptions of a picture out to my five patrons at the moment we have Jaa, Ryan True, Izzy Watkins, Kai Hightower and Agnieszka Klubber I tried I tried yeah thank you to everyone who supported me and I'll catch you guys later on with a new video peace