Hi everyone and welcome back to a brand new season of my podcast, the Estée La Land Show.

I'm your host, Estée La Land. And in the first episode, we'll be talking to my friend Margaret,

who you can find on Instagram at MNS Bell or on YouTube.com slash Margaret Bell. In this episode,

Margaret speaks very openly about her advice to anyone suffering with

mental health issues. And in general, I just find Margaret a joy to speak to because she is just so

honest. I hope you enjoy this episode. Let's get into it. Hello, Margaret. Hi, I say. As I was just saying to you before we started recording, I'm slightly nervous because today we're

going to be talking all about mental health.

And for some reason, talking about anxiety and that sort of subject always gives me

anxiety.

Do you feel the same?

I feel like I'm quite comfortable talking about my mental health

now. I feel like maybe like in the beginning, probably, but I feel like I'm, I've become quite an

open book. Yes, that's true. That's true. And I think that might be a good way to start is kind of talk

about the journey that you've been on with your mental health. And I know

that you've been really open about it online. I've seen your videos talking about it. Obviously,

we're friends in real life, so I kind of know. So if you wouldn't mind sharing a little bit

about your mental health journey, whatever you're comfortable sharing. Okay. So I definitely would say I'm someone who's always like being

anxious. I remember like as early as being sick, just being anxious like at like a family

gathering and stuff like that. But kind of at that time I didn't really know that that was the

thing or that was call anxiety. So I'd say I've always had that since I was a kid.

And then I feel like that definitely got worse.

I'd say in the later part of school, so sixth form here, which is when you're 16 to 18.

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