The following blog posts are written by people with personal experience of anxiety. By talking openly, our bloggers hope to increase understanding around mental health, break stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that – like physical health – affects us all.

I didn't want people to think I was crazy

March 27, 2013

Charcoal drawing of a womanI was diagnosed as having bipolar disorder and anxiety when I was 14 years old after years of very strange behaviour had gone overlooked but everyone in my life. My parents were both mentally ill and unable to communicate that with anyone, so we were three individuals all struggling in the same house, in our solitary bubbles.

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