Fighting back
Since losing her job, Miss Johnston retrained and created her own business inspired by her own recent mental health struggles.
She added: “I’m launching a new online business, and just launched it yesterday, to try and do something to help people with mind-set and things because I’ve had to reach out because my mental health has been affected by this whole situation.
“I have had to reach out and relaunch myself and get my confidence back a bit.
“It has totally floored me. I’m 52 years old and I’m not at a good age to be employable. I don’t mean that in a bad sense but there are very little jobs out there so I’ve had to retrain to start an online business from scratch.”
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