Huw Edwards has actually discussed his fights with anxiety several times throughout the years.
Most just recently, last summer season he was talked to by Alastair Campbell for Men’s Health.
He said: “I’m quite clear that I have actually suffered – and do suffer – from anxiety. It’s not stress and anxiety, although it consists of stress and anxiety, however it tends to strike me in a strong wave and after that disappear.”
Asked for how long his bouts can last, he said: “Oh, weeks. I believe a minimum of I now understand when I’m going to get in a stage like that. Your mind enters into a location where you don’t wish to do anything.
“You can’t make any choices. Things that you typically take pleasure in, you fear. You enter work and undoubtedly you do an expert job, however you’re type of pressing your method through it.
“And, naturally, if it’s extremely bad – as it has actually been a couple of times throughout twenty years – you can’t work. During the worst one I had, I couldn’t rise.”
He went on to state: “It’s not that I remained in bed for days on end. The entire procedure of having a hard time to rise is most likely a much better method of putting it.
“For weeks, I’d have a hard time. And generally, I required Vicky [Edwards’ wife] informing me, ‘You need to get up, go and get a coffee, don’t talk with anybody if you don’t wish to, however simply opt for a walk.’
“We have a dog now. Pets are a benefit. For anybody who experiences stress and anxiety or anxiety, if you wish to interact in such a way that’s really rather fulfilling and not demanding, an animal is perfect.”
Edwards said if he enters into his front room to check out by himself, “that’s rather a bad indication” as it’s him “turning off”.
His dog Mot will then go and sit at his feet.
He said his last significant bout of anxiety remained in 2019 and he has actually not taken antidepressants ever since.
“I’d gladly take them once again if I required to – I don’t have an issue stating that,” he included.
