More help coming for those struggling in Downtown Eastside – CBC
Nov 15, 2016
Vancouver Coastal Health plans to hire 7 or 8 people who have mental health and addiction experience
Erika Weikle’s childhood was what she’d call regular: she won awards in school and she was on her university’s rowing team. But at age 19, things started to go off the rails.
Weikle experienced her first psychotic break and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
“Between 19 and 31, in those 11 years I spent about six years in either hospital or institutions,” she said, adding that addiction soon took over her life.
