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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Benjamin Roberts-Haslam

Woman bullied for being 'goth' now helping women find their style

A woman who tried to take her own life a number of times when she was a teenager has revealed how she battled back from the brink to coach women.

Claire Welch-Beasley has opened up on her mental health struggles, as well as her diagnosis with ADHD and borderline personality disorder, and how when she was just 13 years old she had already self-harmed. The now 31-year-old also revealed that she attempted a number of suicide attempts when she was a teenager before her closest brush with death when she was 21.

Following the attempt to take her own life, Claire took the decision to seek help and was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder before she sought further therapy until she was 25 when she discovered other therapies. She said: "I’ve been on a monumental journey of change to get to where I am today and be in a place where I can now help others.

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