How About a “Me Too” Movement for Mental Health?

Plus 9 free mental health apps to support you.

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Raise your hand if you’ve never had a mental health problem!

My guess is that everyone has raised their hand.

If you didn’t, can you honestly say that you have never been anxious, stressed, fearful, angry, or depressed to an extent where it has affected your life?

Have you never had an addiction to sugar, food, shopping, social media, drugs, or alcohol?

Have you never done anything to “numb” the pain or bad feelings you were experiencing?

I’m a life coach, a hypnotherapist, and a counselor, so that should mean that I’ve always got my mental act together, right?

WRONG!

Where do I start?

I once got so anxious about being made redundant that I developed insomnia and never slept more than 3 or 4 hours per night for about 3 months.

At another point in my life, I suddenly developed claustrophobia and could no longer sit in the middle or window seat on a plane or anywhere where I wasn’t at the end of a row (i.e., in a cinema).

I was addicted to cigarettes for 20 years and unsuccessfully tried to quit many times before I succeeded 21 years…