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I first became unwell as an adolescent. At age 14, I started experiencing severe depression, panic attacks and obsessive tendencies. The obsessive behaviours included compulsive skin picking, a disorder also known as dermatillomania. I began to pick at areas of skin on my face.

Homeland is my must see viewing for the week. It is a series that does not advertise the fact that one of the lead characters has a mental health problem and did not clearly acknowledge the significance of this until the penultimate episode.

At the young age of ten it was easy for me to remember my dolly whenever I left the house and to hide my vegetables in the dog if I didn’t want to eat them but to understand and be aware of mental health was a completely different matter.

There is a relatively new phenomenon in the world of social networking and mental health; the Facebook relapse.