This is a very difficult thing to open up about. If you'd asked me a few weeks ago that this would be something I would be comfortable doing, I would've said no. About two months ago, after a psychiatric assessment, I was diagnosed with a condition called Acute Panic Disorder.
To put it simply, I have uncontrollable bouts of anxiety that can last for hours. It is an overwhelming sense of anxiety that stops you in your tracks and rears its ugly head in the form of physical symptoms, such as; dizziness, nausea, and heart palpitations. The latter in which makes you feel like you're on deaths door.
This is something that, in the last few months, has reduced my quality of life and has required me to do a one-eighty to learn how to live with it. Read More: The Games: Freddie Flintoff’s secret battle with bulimia
