Ultimately, it’s about acceptance. Mental health issues can affect all of us.

Helena Young shares her story of experiencing high anxiety and burnout and touches on the tools and techniques that helped her get through it.

Helena Young has been a pharmacist for 15 years and works in the Education and Training sector at the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE). In this podcast, she shares with us her experience of anxiety, and tips for others going through something similar.

In the first year that I was qualified, I was working in community pharmacy, and I had this episode of really high anxiety, to the point it was affecting me every day.

 

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