What is GAD? Chloe Madeley opens up on diagnosis
ok.co.ukThroughout our lives, all of us will have experienced feelings of anxiety at some point, whether it’s taking part in a nerve-racking job interview, sitting an important test or even heading to a medical appointment.
But while these feelings of nervousness and worry are often short-lived and resolve once the moment has passed, some people, just like personal trainer and TV star Chloe Madeley, suffer from a far more severe form of anxiety known as Generalised Anxiety Disorder, which means she is left feeling anxious constantly without any obvious trigger.
Opening up about her battle with the illness on social media as she explained her recent absence from Instagram, Chloe wrote: “I suppose I’ll title this post “Slowly but Surely Floating out of Depletion and Defeat.” "This post started as an explanation as to why I stopped posting about health and fitness for so long, but ended up somewhere different… “For starters, I should probably say that I still coach pretty much 7 days a week, online and PT, as well as having 2 health and fitness podcasts, so talking and writing about it is still the dominant factor of my day to day life and work." "And because of the above, it would be fair to say that the idea of coming onto social media and repeating the things I’d been talking about all day / week?
Well, quite frankly, it felt impossible.There’s no other word for it. It felt impossible to me. " The star then continued: "It crept up on me very slowly, in hindsight well over a year, but by the end of August of this year, I got pretty bad burn out. "Bodhi became my sole priority and source of joy, but beyond her, absolutely everything felt impossible.
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