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anxiety was at its peak. I constantly felt claustrophobic, even in open spaces, my thoughts ran a 1,000 miles per minute, I was out of breath but all I was doing was watching TV.

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depression since 2015. After a difficult year keeping what I had away from others, I had no choice but to reach out for help.

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Each photograph is my way of saying I'm not beaten yet

I've been a photographer for a lot of my later adult life. I’ve spent many happy hours hiking, motorbiking and mountaineering in and around my home county of Westmorland, Scotland and Wales, taking images as and when my careers as a soldier, mental health specialist and police officer (I’ve been busy) let me."I consider some of my best, most authentic work to have come out of the dark place I was in."It has only really been in the last few years when I've found myself with a little extra time on my hands thanks to my good friend PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), who came to visit in 2010 and decided to move in.

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Sut y daeth Monitro Gweithredol â mi'n ôl o ymyl y dibyn

Ar ben methu â gweld fy nheulu a'm ffrindiau, mae fy nghwrs prifysgol wedi'i ohirio, gan fy ngadael yn gyfan gwbl ar fy mhen fy hun. Roeddwn i’n teimlo mor isel, roeddwn i'n meddwl am ladd fy hun.

How Active Monitoring brought me back from the edge

Active Monitoring. I’m not sure I’d have had the confidence to get in touch with them myself, so it was good when my practitioner called me.Active Monitoring is a six-week guided self-help programme to help people manage their emotions.

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Art is my OCPD therapy

OCD wrong when they find out I’m diagnosed with OCPD; not many people know anything about it. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) has zero flexibility, rules are rules and there is no room for mistakes, but imagine that with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) tendencies too.People with OCD will often be able to identify that their compulsions and obsessions may need treatment, whereas people with OCPD often don’t see anything wrong with their behaviour.

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Hubs would help people like me

mental health problem."My school tried to make me go to the school counsellor. However, this was in no way tailored to the treatment I needed."My mental health problems started when I was 14 and got diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), after a large amount of family bereavement.

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My periods became overwhelming after Dad's death

I was consumed with sadness, self-loathing and feelings that my existence was meaningless.In the first few months, along with grief, the week or two before my period was overwhelming. I was consumed with sadness, self-loathing and feelings that my existence was meaningless.

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"Jim tested positive for Covid. Physically he was well, but it affected his mental health"

Jim's job had always been one of the most important things to him. He had worked hard to overcome his own battles with mental health and took pride in being able to use this to help and support others.

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Dads need support, too

We’d already had multiple traumatic births, each one chipping away at me until my mind said ‘that’s enough’.At one stage I stood on the maternity ward and said goodbye to the love of my life who I had loved since we met aged 16 on college induction day and had spent more than 20 years with by this point. I remember thinking how did we go from the best feeling in the world to the worst, how was I going to bring up seven boys including a premature baby on my own, and how do I tell them mummy will not be coming home.

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When you're trans, having a community to turn to is incredibly reassuring

Last year I came out as trans, the pandemic started and I finished my degree in computer science.It’s safe to say I remember 2020 pretty well. We were all sent home, as they couldn’t have students at university during summer term.

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Giving up alcohol boosted my mental health

depression, including staying in bed all day and cancelling plans with friends. As a teenager my dramatic mood swings manifested in hysterical tears, aggression and violence.I started drinking alcohol at 13 years old.

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Sut mae Monitro Gweithredol wedi fy helpu i daclo fy mhryder

Mae yna, yn bendant, stigma’n dal ynghylch iechyd meddwl, yn enwedig i ddynion. Mae’n anos bod yn agored, ac mae yna lawer iawn llai o gyfleoedd i ni gydnabod ein teimladau.Fel rhan o’m hyfforddiant i ddod yn feddyg teulu, roeddwn i’n aml yn argymell Monitro Gweithredol i’m cleifion oedd yn dod i mewn gyda phroblemau iechyd meddwl ysgafn i gymedrol, felly, un diwrnod, dyma fi’n penderfynu rhoi tro arno fy hunan.

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How Active Monitoring helped me tackle my anxiety

The biggest change was that when I acknowledged my anxiety, it was easy to see exactly how it had affected me.That then enabled me and my practitioner to find interventions that worked for me. I found that mindfulness helped me enormously to cope with my day-to-day anxiety.My anxious thoughts had previously made everything more difficult.

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Sut mae Ochr-yn-Ochr Cymru wedi fy nerthu fel arweinydd cymorth gan gymheiriaid

Fe ymunais i â chwrs o’r enw Mums Matter, oedd yn canolbwyntio ar iechyd meddwl o amgylch geni, ac yna ymuno â grŵp cymorth gan gymheiriaid i gefnogi mamau oedd wedi bod ar y cwrs. Dyna pryd roedden ni’n sylweddoli fod angen grŵp cefnogi arbenigol a phersonol, ar gyfer rhieni plant gydag anghenion ychwanegol (neu, fel rydw i'n eu galw nhw, Rhieni 2.0!) fel fi fy hunan – mae gen i blentyn gydag awstistiaeth ac anghenion eraill.Mae yna lawer o broblemau a thrafferthion unigryw yn codi o fod yn rhiant plentyn gydag anghenion ychwanegol, dyna pam y penderfynais i ymuno ag Ochr-yn-Ochr Cymru.

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How Side by Side Cymru has empowered me as a peer leader

Without Side by Side, not only would our group not exist, but I wouldn’t be able to run it. Our peer support group keeps people well and gives people invaluable advice and support in regards to raising their children with additional needs.

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How video calls made my BDD worse

Oh my God is that a grey? Is it even that bad? Maybe it’s not receding at all? No one will ever find you attractive.You can’t possibly go to a party looking like that.Needless to say, I don’t make it to the party. My night ends with a panic attack followed by frantic hair transplant research in bed before my body finally decides enough is enough.

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Rwy'n ymladd dros gael fy nerbyn yn ddiamod

fraint o fod yn wyn. Rwy’n gweld sut mae pobl yn edrych arna i oherwydd fod fy nghroen yn frown.

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School damaged my mental health

My experiences from school stayed with me throughout my time at university, negatively affecting my mental health.But despite having left school, it was more difficult to break the emotional connection. Perhaps it shouldn’t have been such a surprise that I struggled with my self-esteem after persistent ridicule that had become deeply ingrained over several years.My experiences from school stayed with me throughout my time at university, negatively affecting my mental health.

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Er bod gen i, gam amlaf, agwedd eithaf positif at bethau, roeddwn i 'n cael trafferth i ganfod pethau y gallwn i edrych ymlaen atyn nhw. Ar ôl rhoi clep ar y drws a dweud ffarwel wrth 2020, llusgodd y tri roeddwn i'n rhannu tŷ gyda nhw (fel miloedd o bobl eraill o gwmpas y byd) ein hunain hangoferaidd at ddoc cyfagos i gael trochfa adnewyddol y Calan.

Getting Calm in the Cold

and the realisation that you are running out of things to keep your mind occupied.Like many people over these past 12 months, my physical, mental, and emotional well-being have been out of control.The sliver of hope that this ordeal would come to an end by the new year flirted with my already eroding mental state for all of 3 seconds. Then it dawned on me that winter is coming...and not just with its usual lack of vitamin D and runny noses, but also with Brexit, 3 other corona variants and a steady flow of extended lockdowns and curfews.

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I'm fighting for unconditional acceptance

mental health is stronger. There are constant reminders in the world of how you are different, from equal opportunities monitoring forms, to the way people look at you on the street.

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Being a Mind member helped me win my battle for survival

In helping Mind, I realised things about myself that I had lost. I had power.

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Race, the police and my mental health

auditory hallucinations. I could walk past a group of strangers and be convinced that the group was watching me, talking about me, or laughing at me.Now I believe my paranoia was rooted in the reality of life as a young Black boy - I was often being watched, treated differently and discriminated against.I became more and more paranoid and stressed.

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The great outdoors has given me a fresh approach to life

panic attack, the driver kindly allowed me to sob and eventually catch my breath. His kindness is something I will never forget, along with that feeling of complete panic and fear.I had loved being in the hills and mountains since a child when my dad and I would sit and devour maps.My GP was superb.

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Losing my job in the pandemic

GP, I decided to go back on antidepressants. The first 10 days were spent in bed feeling incredibly nauseous, but this subsided gradually.

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How to ease your way out of lockdown when you have social anxiety

anxious, and even now, I find the memories of awkward social interactions and immense loneliness painful to look back on. I desperately wish it could have been different, but I have accepted now to a certain extent that this is who I am, and that I’m not alone.Despite still suffering with severe social anxiety, I had been thriving at uni.

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'I thought everybody was going to die from Covid and it was my fault.'

hallucinations – I remember seeing a shadow creature at the top of the stairs. I remember thinking, “that can’t be good” but other than that putting the experience out of my mind.I was focused on uni, which was going well; I was getting straight As.

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The baby I was holding didn't feel like mine

GP, even though I didn’t want him to. I was absolutely fine, why would I need to see my GP? Before I even got to the appointment, I started having intrusive thoughts and urges to kill my baby, and to stop that from happening I wanted to kill myself.

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You don't have to be a specialist to support people with eating disorders like me - you just have to listen and care.

But no matter where I looked, I struggled to find examples of people who looked like me or had similar experiences to what I was going through. The only people I had heard of with eating disorders were young girls and the only people with anorexia shown in the media were nothing like me at all.

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Does dim rhaid i chi fod yn arbenigwr i gefnogi pobl ag anhwylderau bwyta fel fi - dim ond y gallu i wrando a thalu sylw sydd angen.

Ond ble bynnag roeddwn i’n edrych, roeddwn i’n cael trafferth dod o hyd i enghreifftiau o bobl oedd yn edrych fel fi neu oedd yn cael profiadau tebyg i'r hyn roeddwn i’n mynd drwyddo. Yr unig bobl roeddwn wedi clywed amdanyn nhw oedd yn dioddef ag anhwylderau bwyta oedd merched ifanc, a doedd y bobl oedd yn cael eu dangos yn y cyfryngau oedd yn dioddef o anorecsia ddim byd tebyg i fi o gwbl.

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I struggled to accept that I have anorexia because I am a man

eating disorder and then engaging in recovery from my eating disorder and sometimes flirting between the two. I have struggled to talk frankly about my experience as although I have never been the poster-boy for masculinity, I have worried that I would seem less of a man by owning up to an eating disorder.I am quite a private person, I internalise any stress and upset and this expresses itself in the form of an eating disorder.

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I asked the PM to provide a Covid-19 mental health spokesperson

I was called by Downing Street Press Office and asked to appear on the next briefing with the Prime MinisterThe question was to be pre-recorded exactly as asked and sent in advance, so I was a little frustrated that I couldn’t flesh it out, or get the chance to respond to the Prime Minister’s answer. However I was still encouraged to hear that the question would be included, and that the Government would finally acknowledge the impact of the pandemic on the nation’s mental health.

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Running eased my anxiety in lockdown

I hadn’t even run 30 miles in my whole life and could barely jog for 90 seconds, so I was setting myself a real test.Exercise is great for mental health, but having a target to meet each day helped keep me motivated and prevent my anxiety from spiraling out of control. This time last year, I probably hadn’t even run 30 miles in my whole life and could barely jog for 90 seconds, so I was setting myself a real test in doing the 30-day Move for Mind Challenge.I wanted to do this challenge and raise money so that Mind can continue to be a great resource for people who are looking for support.

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Taking care of my money and mental health

‘adult’ and not being able to manage my own finances. For being highly educated and not being able to manage my finances.

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Blogging about my sexuality eased my depression

LGBTQ community existed, but it felt as though it was something you shouldn’t want to be a part of. The word ‘gay’ was casually thrown around as an insult, which only fed the idea that homosexuality was wrong.The difference between the ‘gay world’ and ‘straight world’ seemed black and white, but I felt stuck in the middleI didn’t understand my own feelings.

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Coming to terms with my mother's suicide

suicide is one I will never forget. The shock, the confusion, the anger, the betrayal can never be erased from my memory even if I tried.

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I cope by communicating

anxious and overwhelmed. I’m a social emotional and mental health mentor (which is a kind of teaching assistant), and to be honest at the moment it’s hard.

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Telephone mental health support suited me more than online support

When lockdown came around, I found accessing support very difficult. I felt as though there was nowhere or no one to turn to.Throughout this challenging time, the one thing giving me hope was attending weekly children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) sessions.

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I am anorexic and I'm not underweight

The stereotype that to struggle with disordered eating you have to be a certain weight is a huge misconceptionThis isn’t actually unusual. The stereotype that to struggle with disordered eating you have to be a certain weight is a huge misconception.

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Adventures eased my anxiety

anxiety led me to trapping myself in my house, rarely venturing outside at all, mixed with heavy drinking that ended up with a lengthy hospital stay, losing my house and my wife. One of the big things I learned was that adventures can be smallWith the support of family, friends, medical professionals and local substance support groups, I spent 2019 trying to “get back out there”, to dip my toes back in the world (and I wrote a book about it).

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Sut rwy'n hybu hyder wrth godi arian i Mind

ar gael yn Saesneg (English).Cysylltais â Mind am y tro cyntaf yn dilyn digwyddiad trawmatig yn fy mywyd. Roeddwn i wedi bod mewn perthynas lle roeddwn yn cael fy ngham-drin gan gyn-bartner.

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How I'm promoting confidence while raising money for Mind

available in Welsh (Cymraeg).I first got in touch with Mind following a traumatic incident in my life. I’d been in an abusive relationship with a now ex-partner who constantly talked down to me and treated me awfully, making horrible comments about my looks and tearing my confidence apart.At my lowest, it resulted in me attempting to take my own life.

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Rowing the Atlantic for mental health

mental health issues, hitting rock bottom 3 years ago. One of his problems, he says, is that he was too 'manly', stubborn and proud to get the help he needed for far too long.

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I found online mental health support challenging

borderline personality disorder and I’m under the care of a community mental health team. But then Covid-19 came in like a whirlwind.I received very little support in how best to engage with therapy online and just felt thrown into itSuddenly I was told my therapy would now be ‘digital’.

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I turned my mental health crisis into a mental health triumph

Sat outside a coffee shop I started to feel funny. The only way I can honestly describe it is uncomfortable, so I decided to head back to my car to get away from the busy area.

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Moving for Mind: How my anxiety doesn't define who I am

I’ve accepted that my anxiety will always be there but now I know it doesn’t have to have such power.The last few years I’ve been on a journey to discover the things that help me to manage and make peace with my anxiety. I went to therapy for two years, I worked through so many issues and it really taught me that my feelings are valid and the power of talking about how you are feeling. I do yoga, meditation, and journal and take medication.

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In the workplace, things seemed to be going well. Then I was sexually harassed; a frightening blow to my confidence.As I began to experience ‘the real world’, I grew and flourished. I was always more mature than my age - an old head on young shoulders.

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