"Sitting on the underground and looking at the people surrounding me, the intensity of the changes that my illness had initiated started to hit me.  ME hadn't just given me a totally new direction in my life, wisdom far beyond my years and a career more fulfilling than I had ever dreamed possible.  It had fundamentally changed me on a far deeper level.  It had led me towards my real self, to who I really am and what I am really capable of."