Words like depression and anxiety can be overused or even trivialised. People talk about feeling uneasy about a text they sent, or a job interview or a first date; or down because their team lost or their favourite coffee shop is closing.
But deep-seated anxiety and depression can render a person frozen and flailing, like Michelle Newland who, at the depths of her despair after the death of her daughter in 2016, found herself alone contemplating suicide.
