The Telegraph.

Podcasts. When I think about myself when I'm really anxious and when I know that I'm really struggling,

I'm doing exactly what the government's asked us to do, which is to self-isolate, you know, to stay at home,

the people out there who do have mental health issues who are struggling right now,

they're being asked to do something that is something that they would do when they're struggling.

This week on Mad World, I am absolutely thrilled to welcome a woman who captured the nation's

hearts in 2015 when she won the Great British Bake-off.

Since then, she's written several cookbooks, novels, a children's book, a memoir,

and I don't imagine many people can say this,

but also

candidly spoken about her battles with anxiety and panic.

Would you please welcome the wonderful Nadia Hussein.

Hello! I like to just start the chat immediately. I'm so thankful for you Nadia coming on and taking the time to chat to us.

First off, how are you really? Because we ask this question to each other a million times a day, but we often don't answer with how we really feel. So, how are you really, my love?

Not okay. And I say that and I hide that with a laugh. Which is normal. Yeah, but no. How often do you get asked how are you really? Not often. not often I don't think we ask that question I think we ask each

other how are you are you okay in the hope for maybe sometimes for a quick answer and how are you really is a really tough one to answer because I don't think people get asked that question very often.

And right now, not great, just not great. Just not great. Can I thank you for answering that honestly?

Because lots of people do just gloss over don't they and sort of say I'm fine.'m fine I've re-watched last night your anxiety

and me documentary and so much of it resonated with me and it was a year ago that it came out during Mental Health Awareness Week and it was such a brave honest helpful documentary to do and I was thinking to myself I wonder how she's doing now?

The time I didn't think I was doing anything brave but I didn't really

realize what I was doing till I had a camera in my face and then I realized oh actually I'm talking about something that's so

deep-rooted and so private and I'm sticking a camera in my house in my face following me around and we're talking about something that I've spent 30 something years hiding and that was really really tough and I went from kind of

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