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I’m already a nervous person but on this day I was even more nervous. This was before I knew about the marvels of modern medicine and lived my life in the Stone Age. I had been raised to not talk about mental illness, to pretend it was something that only happened to “those people”. It was something we just didn’t talk about.

Anyway, on that day my anxiety was through the roof. I was young, my wife was about to give birth, I was working the night shift while I finished up university…