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The following are quotes taken from Client Monitoring and Feedback Forms
They are reproduced with the permission of the clients.

  “Words cannot explain the value of the support I have received from ISAS.  When I look to my past, I am almost unrecognisable as a person.  So many things have changed all for the better, and I actually feel like I have a future to look forward to an embrace.”
Anon Female Survivor

 “Slowly and without noticing, my self respect and self worth grew from lower than ‘nothing’ to releasing that:
I do matter,
I do count and
I am important.”
Anon Female Survivor

“I feel happier.  ISAS has assisted me to separate and cope with many issues.  I realise I still have a way to go but I feel you have enable me to work on this.”
Anon Male Survivor

 “ISAS is an excellent organisation and really know their stuff when it comes to survivors and offenders.  Do the Government realise the impact that the good work of ISAS has on Survivors and their families?  I think not.”
Anon Parent of a Survivor

 “At times I have felt suicidal both before and during the early stages of my counselling. 
I have not felt like this for a long time and do not feel it now.”
Anon Female Survivor

“Just knowing there are others like me and talking to them with the counsellors helps a lot”
Anon Male Group Survivor

 “My everyday living has improved and I have more confidence and I have learnt to say NO when needed”
Anon Female Survivor

“I now feel more like a normal 28 year old man and not a lost little boy.  I owe an awful lot to ISAS.”
Anon Male Survivor

“I was regularly taking sleeping pills. I very rarely need to take them now.”
Anon Female Survivor

“I didn’t know that my years of depression was caused by what happened to me when I was young.
After years of taking anti-depressants I am now pill free! And it’s GREAT."
Anon Female Survivor

“I am no longer dependant on long term incapacity benefit. 
I can now support myself and enjoy my work very much.”
Anon Female Survivor

 “I now value myself as a person and allow myself to have time for me.
I have become more confident and look and address problems in a different way.”
Anon Female Survivor

 “I found it a great help to be able to talk to an outsider rather than family and friends.”
Anon Female Survivor

 “I would just like to say thank you for being there for all of us who need ISAS, I did and I do.  Thank you.”
Anon Female Survivor

 “I am very grateful with all the help ISAS has given me, not only with the abuse issues but also in helping me to a new future.
Thank you.”
Anon Male Survivor

“I have learnt that I still had a lot of anger within myself and that I was still punishing myself.  I’ve learnt how to channel my anger a lot better now and I have also stopped blaming myself.”
Anon Male Survivor

“Counselling has helped more that I could ever have dreamed.
Just talking and opening up I finally feel as if I can put the past behind me and get on with my life.”
Anon Male Survivor

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Last updated on 5 June 2007