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Stephen’s Story
When I was battling with depression and anxiety everyone just kept telling me that it was all in my head. I just wanted to hit them all in the back of the head and tell them off most of the time. I mean having depression and anxiety is a battle that you have to fight all by yourself. You’re sent off to war when you never signed up for it and nobody really quite understands what you’re going through because it’s different for everyone. One day it just got so bad that I couldn’t handle the outside world so I went to Regions Hospital in Saint Paul. Everything around me was just falling to pieces and I didn’t want to be shown as weak, or anything ‘less than’. I always help out other people but refused others when they wanted to help me.