Mat Voyce

I think it really is.

I think at times it's definitely affected my personal projects.

I was always very locked on to the fact that I can't let this affect my day to day, especially as a lot of it started coming out when we were essentially trying for children.

And the fact that I was going to have to try and get a lid on this before we had a child because my wife can't deal with this.

newborn for example or a baby as well as me trying to deal with what's going on with this because it would affect like my mood swings and my general tone and we always say in the house not if you like having a go at someone you might snap at someone so being like snappy back to someone asking you something when they're not trying to essentially incite an argument or trying to start an argument was what

We noticed quite early on that I would be snappy.

I just wouldn't have a positive outlook, really.

I guess I'm not a massive optimist, like I never have been, but the pessimism, it was just a lot.

It was intense.

being pessimistic about just going out, doing day-to-day things, even about getting good design jobs.

Like I'd get a great brief or design job through and tell my partner and she'd be like, yeah, this is great.

It's really good.

And I'd be like, yeah, yeah, it's good.

It's good.

No optimism in it or positivity.

So it definitely had its toll and took its toll on certain aspects behind the scenes in that sense.

And yeah,

I don't think it got too intense in terms of affecting my day-to-day jobs, which is good.

But yeah, behind the scenes, there was definitely that battle there that was pushing and going on.

So yeah, it felt like I needed to do something to get it under control.