Holly tells her story in her new podcast 21 & Over, where she talks about mental health. The podcast stems from the incidents when she was eighteen, when she was sexually assaulted twice. As a result, she has developed a post-traumatic stress disorder, among other things. She kept the abuse a secret for a long time, she says. “I put it in a box in the back of my head and tried to carry on as best I could.”
Still, Holly soon learned that the impact on her mental health was significant. She had just been training as a fashion designer for a year when she was getting worse. She said she often went to parties instead of lectures, and that behavior turned out to be the result of a stress disorder. She dropped out of her studies and was admitted to the hospital, where, in addition to the stress disorder, she was also diagnosed with depression and anxiety. She is now doing better. She has therapy several times a week and is ‘working hard’ on her recovery.
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“That’s what’s so special about this podcast: it’s a journey. I’m not saying I’m cured. Everything is in a box in a corner. There will still be bad days, great times, and bad days. There I go deal with it.” Her mainstay are her parents Gordon and Tana, twin brother Jack, sisters Meghan and Matilda and little brother Oscar. “It’s great to have the three of them and now an extra brother. It’s brought me closer to them, just like my parents.”
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