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[Paula]

Thank you for your replies. I take one medication for for anxiety which I think is helping and I was referred to talking therapies but hey thought the best thing to do would be an online course but it didnt work. The thing is, I really don’t feel I can tell my family I think they just wouldn’t understand. I feel I really disappointed my dad today, but I just couldn’t tell him the real reasons that I couldn’t go out. I just can’t face people. Did you both feel better when you told your family, did they understand? I’ve cut myself off from nearly everyone over the past 6 months but I realise it is really not the best thing to do.

Thanks for your time,
Lucy.

I didn’t tell my family as much as my family forced me to see there was a problem (my mum frogmarched me down to the doctors, I was 28, married with 2 kids and had been ill for 12 years). I had mixed feelings - I was grateful to find out what was wrong but angry this had happened to me. But over the years, the support of my friends and family has been vital in my recovery and in keeping me in one piece