This is an ABC podcast.

As a kind of anxious type, I dread every social interaction.

But I also know if I don't have them for long enough, I just feel like shit.

Yeah, and I'm definitely the same way, and I'm an introvert.

So there's sort of, there is a strangeness to discovering that I need to go outside.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, it's Sana Khadar from All In The Mind, and it's your mental health week here on the ABC.

So we're focusing on all things, you guessed it, mental health. And it's your mental health week here on the ABC. So we're focusing on all things,

you guessed it, mental health. And it's hard to know exactly how to look after your mental health

at a time like this. So what happens if that was something you were already struggling with

before the pandemic hit? That's a question Graham Panther has been asking himself a lot lately. Graham is an

advocate and consultant in Australia's mental health sector. He's also, in his own words, an anxious

type. Along with his partner, Honor Easley, he runs the big feels club, an online community

for thousands of other anxious types across Australia.

Over the past few months, Graham's been documenting his response to the unfolding events of 2020.

He's been keeping in contact with the other anxious types in his life and comparing notes on how they're coping too.

For those who struggle with their mental health, at the best of times, there's no doubt it's been an especially challenging year.

When it comes to global panic, I'm something of an early adopter.

Since I was a kid, I've had a particular knack for what you might call catastrophic thinking.

The ability to take any and all worst case scenarios and convince myself they are, in fact, already happening all at once.

So what happens when your catastrophic thinking begins to line up with, you know, catastrophes?

2020.

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