Hi my name is Emma, I am 33.
A few years ago if someone would have told me I would loose 2 years of my life due to severe depression and general anxiety disorder, be admitted 3 times into a psychiatric hospital and survive an overdose, I would have said ‘no way, not me, that sort of thing doesn’t happen to people like me’ – I was well brought up, with a great education and lived a comfortable life, settled in a job in fashion which I loved, living with my best friend and had a great circle of friends – with nothing unusual to complain about. How wrong could I be?
Along with depression and anxiety I have also been diagnosed with
borderline personality disorder.
This has all effected my life and what I value dramatically and changed the path in life that I thought for 20 years I was going to take. I thought I would remain in fashion for the rest of my carreer but this experience has made me change my path and I am going to studyt counselling with an aim to bcome an art therapist
Well educated. Good job. Well brought up. Living in a dream flat with her best friend. Doing her dream job. With a great circle friends.
You would not think she would spend. 3 years yo yoing in and out of a psychiatric hospital. Survive an overdose. Be 31 and have to move back home with her parents and lose touch with a majority of friends, isolating herself.
Well, this is me.
This is my life.
I am 1 in 4.
I am diagnosed with general anxiety disorder, recurrent depression. borderline personality disorder and ADD (wow what a list!!!!).
This whole experience has changed my life, and lifelong values dramatically. I thought I would be working in fashion for the rest of my life, however I have now decided to retrain as a counsellor with the aim to then go on to be an art therapist.
Although this whole journey (which is still not over) has been a nightmare I have learnt so much about myself and who I am, and I hope to help others do the same.