Mat Voyce

And...

I tried therapy like CBT for a while, but it was nice to talk about it and get it off my chest and talk to someone who was completely unbiased and could help me talk through it.

But in the long run, I don't feel like me talking about my issues and my problems really helped change anything.

I've been given coping mechanisms in the past and

ways to try and things like breathing exercises and roots of thinking about things and not letting it spiral and being realistic about things but it's just never really helped.

Medication was a last resort for me because if that didn't work then honestly I don't really know how I was ever going to really get on top of it or solve it because

talking just not helped me.

The coping mechanisms have not helped.

I can talk about it in my head, but then I can just be triggered or I can think about something and my mind switches again.

So it just never helped.

And I don't really know where I heard about medicine before, but I talked to my GP and tried me on one medication and I started in October and it's been like a long process.

And the great thing about

saying it publicly was that you can Google things all you want.

You can Google like how long it's going to take to kick in.

How would it make me feel?

But it's Google.

And most of the time now it's you're getting given like the AI answers, which summaries of web pages.

And it wasn't real information that I felt was like palpable or

information that I could almost count on.

So when I put it publicly and I got real advice and real information from more so creatives who were designers who had similar thought processes to me or who were creative individuals, when I had that information, that felt like it was a game changer.