My Journey - The Beginning started back in about 1996. Without knowing what I had experienced for such a long time was about to change forever. Even though I had experienced anxiety attacks from around 1978 till about 1996 I had no idea what this was or what it meant and at the time what I was experiencing. I thought this was part of life. Life was a struggle throughout this period with bouts of OCD along the way and the constant mental battle I attempted to win on a daily and at times hourly basis.

I remember the day clearly when I experienced my first anxiety attack and it was back in about 1978 and I was only 10 years old. As a kid I was playing with a paint lid as we were doing a minor renovation when Dad got angry and he chased me where I stood against the wall near the tap as he hit me in my head. As I struggled to survive from this experience it was when I experienced my first anxiety attack and it happened quickly.

After this experience the attacks started to come and go for a number of years and slowly the OCD crept into my life and took over until 1996. The family decided we were all to go on a holiday overseas. Now remember at this point I had experienced OCD for about 10 years and anxiety for a further 7 which was 17 years in total. At this point my body was broken and I did not know this until midway through the trip.

OCD taught me to become a problem solver and a fighter and helped shape me to becoming the tenacious and persistent person I am today it’s what helped me to survive. Back to the trip and as we all boarded onto the plane I remember experiencing another OCD attack which resulted in an anxiety attack and a few more of these followed.

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