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Jacob Farr

Edinburgh student was left crippled by anxiety after living perfect life 'on paper'

An Edinburgh University graduate is attempting to run 10k every day throughout the month of November to raise money for Movember and awareness for male mental health.

Elliot Grant-Conlin, 25, who works as a parliamentary assistant, has spoken of his own battles with depression that he encountered as he entered his twenties while studying at Heriot-Watt and later Edinburgh University.

The economics and law graduate said that he was diagnosed with depression a couple of years ago and struggled to come to terms with his university life coming to an end. But the denial around his mental health set in during what he described to be a relatively desirable life on paper as a student.

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