Travel Counsellor Dean McMackin has a tattoo with the words, ‘what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger’. It’s a personal reminder that while he’s hit rock bottom, he’s also grafted his way back up.
“It was all my own doing,” he admits. “I wasn’t that child growing up. I played football, we had a good family lifestyle. But I was stubborn, I thought I knew better than everybody else. It wasn’t said at the time, but I had definitely mental health issues.”
When he was 18, Dean fell in with the wrong crowd and moved into a hostel, where experimentation with drugs developed into a heroin addiction.
