The night Tamara first walked through the doors of Hope Haven, a new community mental health hub in the heart of Whitehaven, she was afraid.(塔玛拉第一次走进“希望港”的那个晚上，她心里充满恐惧。) “Terrified, actually,” she says. “Like, my life was falling apart(崩溃，瓦解). I didn’t know how to stop it from hurting.”
塔玛拉第一次走进“希望港”的那个晚上，她心里充满恐惧。“其实是吓坏了，”她说。“感觉我的生活正在崩溃。我不知道怎样才能不再痛苦。”
The 22-year-old, who works in children’s transport, had been in and out of(断断续续地进出) therapy and counselling(心理咨询) since she was 14, after being abused by an acquaintance as a child. After a lengthy legal process her abuser was sentenced, but the “mental challenge” of dealing with what had happened to her was not over.(经过漫长的法律程序，施虐者被判刑，但应对这段经历带来的“心理挑战”并未结束。)
这位22岁的女孩从事儿童交通工作，自14岁起就断断续续地接受治疗和心理咨询，起因是她小时候被一名熟人虐待。经过漫长的法律程序，施虐者被判刑，但应对这段经历带来的“心理挑战”并未结束。
“I was having a really hard time at home, and my best friend told me that I could go and stay with her for a bit, but I needed to ask for help first, so she dropped me off here at like 11 o’clock at night,” she says.
“我在家里过得很艰难，我最好的朋友告诉我可以去她那里住一阵子，但我得先寻求帮助，所以她大概晚上11点把我送到了这里，”她说。