My career and intimate relationships have negatively affected my mental health in the last couple of years. I effectively lost my best friend and sporting career on the same day and I took it all really personally.

I felt incredibly sad and frustrated. I started getting anxiety attacks, I felt depressed at times and I got quite skinny and didn’t care for my physical health that much. I remember being on a plane home from a holiday a few months after and we got some really bad turbulence which would usually raise a pulse – but I was in a state of mind that if that plane had dived out of the sky it wouldn’t have mattered, which is pretty scary to feel in itself.

I spoke to friends about my “headspace” fairly often because I knew it was the best way to fight what I was feeling. I then started seeing a hypnotherapist and doing meditation which really helped me discover some of the reasons behind my breakdown of sorts. Even a couple of years on though, I’m still trying to find more answers inside why it all affected me so much.

I talked about it a lot with family and close friends. I saw a hypnotherapist and started meditating. These things were luckily enough for me. I knew I had to embrace these activities for them to be useful and I just did that.

I’m really just trying to help anyone who has felt the same way that I have. I wouldn’t wish the way I felt on my worst enemy. What I realise is that the only way out of it is to talk to people about it, which is why we’re encouraging others to tell their #SameHere story, and to seek help in whatever form seems to work.

Everyone knew that I was in a pretty low place and family and friends got around me a lot. It is great to know you can pick up the phone and talk to people who are supportive – whoever they might be, because it can drag you out of a hole.