Melanie Forbes

The Truth About the Lies Melanie Forbes

A true story of childhood abuse, rape, child's sex abuse and family brutality. Having to become the makeshift parent of my two brothers and two sisters at the age of eight years of age. Getting brutally, physically and psychologically abused by my mother if I didn't do as she asked of me, whilst intoxicated by alcohol, the beatings were so terrible, I was absent from school for four months. Having to live a life coping with chronic pain, disability and mental health, coming out the other side of these conditions, living a life medicated free and how to lead your life to be a better you. Transforming my life, by getting rid of the wheelchair, learning to walk with two walking sticks. Proving to myself through the death of my father that I can be the person I am now striving to be, trying to now walk unaided, at times with difficulty, but not giving up on myself Going on my first holiday on my own, learning more about myself, understanding that I am a loving free spirited woman on a mission to live and love life.