'My anxiety became much more overwhelming at university'

A mental health charity says there's not enough help for younger anxiety sufferers and too many people put a brave face on it instead of asking for help.

Mind talked to around 2,000 18 to 34-year-olds to find out how people cope with stress.

The poll also suggests that a quarter of young people feel that showing their emotions is a sign of weakness.

Courtney Lee Deakin started having anxiety attacks at university.

Here's her story and how she learned to cope.

"I think my anxiety has always been there. It just took a lot of stress and social awkwardness to really break my confidence.

"In my second year of university this is where my anxiety got really bad, and much more overwhelming.

"To explain how and why it really started is kind of hard to really pin point.

"I guess the natural explanation for a university student to suffer from anxiety is stress or work-related.

"But mine originated from feeling awkward around social groups and the loss of really close friends.

"This led me to feel awkward in certain situations and to then immediately doubt myself and my self-worth.

"At this time a friend approached me saying that I should watch a TV series called My Mad Fat Diary.

"I continued to watch the programme at home and could see why the way that I was speaking about myself was so negative and so self-doubting.

"My friends at the time would say to me, 'You need help,' almost feeding the information into my head.

"They made me believe that they were right and that I needed help.

"BUT they weren't right.

"I just needed to understand why I was so negative about myself, and I certainly didn't want to push my negativity onto other people's lives.

"I wanted to believe that the people who were leading me to believe I was different were my true friends. I told myself, 'They must be right and I am making this stuff up for attention.'

"Only I wasn't and they weren't true friends, but I did have to get help - just from myself.

"Once I came to terms with the fact that I suffered from anxiety and it was a common problem, suffered by many mentally healthy people, then I could work on methods to combat it, manage and control it.

"The acceptance of having anxiety is hard for people to understand but with the help of true friends and people sharing their stories, we continue to grow and help others dealing with anxiety to be accepted, not judged in society."

Find advice on how to deal with anxiety and stress on the BBC Advice pages.

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