Two years ago, the last time I wrote about myself, I was travelling back on a busy train from Southampton to London post-Christmas. That feels like a different world now. …

When I told my best friend of 13+ years that I had anxiety, he exclaimed: “But Adam, you’re the most confident person I know!” This is not criticism of him, just a reflection on how others thought of me. I might have been confident at school, at sixth-form college, but…