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How I finally dealt with my crippling anxiety at a breathing retreat in Sri Lanka.

Adam Turner (left) at Sen Wellness in Rekawa Nature Reserve in Sri Lanka Suddenly the thought of death came to my mind and I couldn’t get it out of my mind. Shaking and breathing more heavily than would be acceptable in a room full of meditating strangers, I opened my eyes to fight back a… Read More »

Lenny Pidgeley won the League Cup with Chelsea; Three years later he considered suicide

Pidgeley now runs his own landscaping business – Heathcliff O’Malley in The Telegraph Less than three years after he was front and center in Chelsea’s 2005 League Cup celebrations, Lenny Pidgeley found himself locked in an Elland Road toilet, paralyzed with anxiety. A few weeks ago, wrapped in her sheets and curtains drawn, Pidgeley had… Read More »