Caroline Foran

This was when I was 25.

Two ways of looking at it, I suppose.

I was so afraid of hitting rock bottom because that felt so lonely and isolating and scary.

And I didn't see anyone else going through it around me that I knew of.

I was 25.

Yeah.

That's when it all, I mean, it had always been brewing.

I had always experienced anxiety in some ways.

It came to a head when I was 25.

And I actually think that's so interesting because that's the age at which our prefrontal cortex is fully formed.

You're only when you're 25 are you then fully all online up here.

But it just came out an hour.

I was like, what is this?

I think it's really common for women to have it around that time.

And I don't know, but I think there has to be some link between developmentally where we're at.

And becoming an adult, like in the biological sense, I think is when a lot of stuff will kind of come to the fore.

But the rock bottom thing was, it was very dark.

I...

I started to experience depression as a side effect of the anxiety.

I wouldn't have been someone who was depressed or suffered from depression.