TELL US YOUR STORY AND EXPERIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH?
Gill In 2004, I had the world at my feet. Newly married, I had just completed my probationary year as a teacher in my local special school and was looking forward to a long and prosperous career in a role I loved.
Flash forward to 2006 and after, literally, many ups and downs, I received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. From then on, I felt like a magnet, receiving multiple mental health diagnoses, including binge eating disorder and premenstrual dysphoric disorder, which can see me go from happy to suicidal in a matter of hours. Suffice to say these diagnoses did not augur well with the stresses and strains of teaching and I was medically retired from teaching in 2014.
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