the association that provides shelter for more than 1,500 euros a month

Carla Vigo (23) has spoken on several occasions about his mental health problems, which worsened with the death of his mother, Erika OrtizThe young woman has been receiving psychological care ever since, and at the end of last year she moved into a supervised flat in the centre of Madrid. She was discharged in April, although she returned five months later.

The house where Doña Letizia’s niece lived, located in Chamberí, began its supervised status in October 2019, and has the services of the Association of Social Initiatives, which “provides supervised housing for people with mental illness”. People who, according to the association, “are prone to isolation and tend to stop participating in any activity that involves social relationships or contact.”

Carla received professional care there for four months, in April she looked for a new home after being discharged and has now returned, according to The SpanishThe monthly cost of the places is 1,500 euros if the person shares a room, or 1,790 euros if the dormitory is single.

In an interview she gave a few months ago, Carla spoke about the bad experiences she has had since she was 14. During this time she has had several suicide attempts and has suffered from bulimia and anorexia. “I wasn’t happy, it was a pretty bad feeling and, as I didn’t feel good about myself, I became rebellious. I didn’t want to study, I had parties at home… I felt like I was missing my mother. It was a void that I wanted to fill but I didn’t know how,” she recalled.

At that time he became aware that he was stopping eating and was beginning to “vomit”. “That’s when I started looking in the mirror and hating myself. I didn’t love myself.”“I knew it was self-destructive for me, because of the experience my mother had, and I was very scared. That’s why I told my loved ones: ‘I’m killing myself little by little and I don’t want the same thing to happen to me as happened to my mother,'” the young woman explained in Readings.

As for her heart, at the beginning of the summer she began a relationship with a young Catalan named Xavier Macías, who is trying his hand at football. In the autumn of 2022, Carla – who dreams of establishing herself as an actress – left him with another young man, Álvaro Uceda, after about a year and a half together. They keep their relationship practically at a distance, since she lives in Madrid and he in Barcelona, ​​although they see each other when they have the chance.