I've always lived "on the edge" so to speak and now find myself isolating myself by habit. I've alway felt different. I used to use drugs to escape myself and my pain but they don't make anything different just add another problem. So, here I am now raw and crutchless - no upers, downers, dope or smokes just me all raggedy, sharp and bristly. I can't sleep, my jaw aches from grinding. There is no escape from me and I guess I frighten myself.

This whole outback town is about making money. Lots of it for very little work. The isolation and lack of sevices are the price we pay - why am I here? I love my partner and he believes this is a way we can "get ahead" and eventually get a house back in the city ansd send our daughteer to a good school. I feel like I am here to heal the land.