This is the Guardian.

Today, more of us are out of work with long-term sickness than ever before. Why? To live with the anxiety it feels like you are on edge constantly, almost as if there is somebody looking over your

shoulder or the time, or you're never alone, always on edge edge always a little bit paranoid for your body to be

on high alert day in and day out for weeks on end it is debilitating and it is exhausting.

This is Ridian. He's 30 and he lives in Bridge End in South Wales.

He spent all of his adult life with anxiety and depression.

As for depression, imagine if you're grieving for a lost loved one, if somebody really close to you has just passed away,

and you have that feeling following you all your life.

After I finished secondary school,

ordered by A levels, I attempt to go to university.

I didn't really realize at the time

just how bad my mental health was

and the sort of got into

University of everything just sort of hate that that's what I was at my worst I

lasted about a year and then had to drop out. What Ridian didn't know then was that he also has ADHD, which among other things was making it really hard for him to focus.

I was working as a retail assistant out on the shop in clothing, but I was also

responsible for managing online sales and updating the website and reply to emails and it was just it was a for

somebody who really wasn't in the best place mentally it wasn't a very good place

to start my career shall I say.

He left that first job because he was overwhelmed.

He couldn't do everything he was being asked to all at once,

and his depression took over.

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