Two years passed when Silje Laugen Sørensen didn't really show up at all. Only to move her body from the bed to the couch. Once in a while out into the kitchen to smoke a cigarette under the hood. Or to go for a walk with her beloved dog, Bailey. Two years when dark thoughts dominated Silje's mind. Thoughts that had propagated since her childhood, when an early teacher and an educator thought they should cut it out of cardboard for her. That she was inept. That she would never amount to anything. But the two years have gradually grown apart. In powerlessness, Silje could fuss over the smallest things. Aggressive behavior it was called by the adults around her. That this kind of outburst now happens very rarely, she thanks, among other things, the ADHD medication she has started taking. And then she thanks the program Football for the Future - a program for long-term unemployed young people who find it difficult to get up and start life. "Now there are people around me who believe in me and who tell me that it's okay to make mistakes, that I have value and that I'm not incompetent," says Silje.