
This Is Me: Anxiety
Six of our colleagues have shown remarkable bravery by sharing their personal journey with anxiety. Take a look at each story below.
Anita
"My name is Anita Ubhi, and I am a Client Relationship Manager for Private Shopping. My journey with anxiety started back in 2019 and I think it was more so just the level of expectation I've set for myself in general. So when I first started having symptoms, it would be anything from heart palpitations to almost physical shaking because it was almost like a panic."
Hayri
"My name is Hayri Volkan. I am the General Retail Manager for Signature, Seasonal and Arcade. The first time I realised that I had anxiety, was probably around the time that I started secondary school. There was a lot of change in my life at the time. I suffered from a lack of confidence and I found it very hard to make friends. I realised it was sort of building up, this anxiety thinking about what I said and why I said it, and I wanted to do better. But just at the time, I just didn't understand why I was feeling that way."
Matthew
“My name is Matthew Shepherd. I am a Resourcing Partner at Harrods. My anxiety started when I was younger. My Mum and Dad split up when I was really young, and my Mum was very poorly. And because she was poorly, there was always a fear of getting too close to her, which caused me kind of a lot of anxiety and worry. It tended to be that I overthought situations and catastrophised things. And I just felt like I was a little bit different to everyone else.”
Michael
“My name is Michael Grant. I'm a Stylist and I work in the Studio. My anxiety surfaced when I was young. I was probably six or seven, and I realised I couldn't do the things that other kids around me could do, I couldn't play games with them confidently, and I couldn't speak up for myself without feeling like it was silly or stupid. When I realised it was anxiety, it was a lot easier for me to just work through it a little bit more. Everyone deals with it and sometimes you need a little bit of extra help with it."
Neil
"I’m Neil Thornton, and I'm the Group Content Manager here at Harrods. My journey with anxiety actually only kind of makes sense now that I'm kind of at a pace where I understand it and I look back and I kind of connect the dots. I was kind of like, oh, these don't feel like that should be my usual reaction to things. And I found that my kind of generalised worry about things was increasing, and that led me to a diagnosis of Generalised Anxiety Disorder."
Roísín
"My name is Roísín, and I'm an Image Co-ordinator at the Photo Studio. I realised that I had anxiety or some form of anxiety condition when I was 17. And it surfaced, I guess, from some family trauma. At the time, it looked like a sort of panic attack difficulty shorting my thoughts out and a lot of guilt and decision-making. If I made a decision about one thing would feel guilty about the decision that I didn't make."
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