‘I left my family – my four lovely children, my wife of 30-something years, my house, I walked away from my business which I’d developed over many years, I just wanted to give everything away and leave the world.’
Brent Williams talked about how depression and anxiety transformed his life on Metro.co.uk’s weekly mental health podcast Mentally Yours.
He went from working as a busy human rights lawyer, educator and family man to self-imposed isolation brought on by mental illness.
‘I knew that’s all I could do, I could not cope in the world, I couldn’t do my job, I couldn’t be a father, I couldn’t be a partner, I couldn’t be a friend to anybody.
‘I just had to retreat, I just had to withdraw, and of course part of that was wanting to end my life.’
He added: ‘It was burnout, it was depression, it was anxiety, it was all one big mess.’
A glimmer of hope came… Read the full story
from Metro http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/04/i-could-not-cope-in-the-world-brent-williams-talks-about-depicting-his-depression-and-anxiety-in-a-graphic-novel-7130268/
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