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Know when anxiety is talking

I was entering the legal profession and I was applying for my first post-graduate position. I decided that I wanted to be really open and honest about my mental illness and my anxiety condition. I had been living in fear, fear of the stigma. I thought I’d be rejected. I thought I’d just be flat-out rejected, that I wouldn’t get a job at all. I thought no one would hire me. But what I found was I got the position, and my boss was really helpful in helping me to adjust into the workplace. I just felt relief that all the fears that I had just weren’t true. It gave me the courage to go forward and continue to tell people.

Video by Beyond Blue