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Growing up in a tough working class estate can be hard when it comes to being able to express feelings of fear or anxiety. When the first words from someone's mouth when there is someone new on the streets is "can they fight ?''; then it's easy to understand that saying you are ''worried", or ''scared" is not easy. Jonathan grew up in a tough council estate in Nottingham having suffered domestic, physical and psychological abuse from a young age, with no outlet for emotion. He had learnt, as so many people do, to bottle up and suppress his feelings . Fear of the unknown played a major part in his early life leading on to problems as he grew older, leaving him battling major anxiety and depression for most of his twenties and into his thirties. Living almost a double life and hiding away from his mental health issues with his job as a personal trainer and boxing coach, having been head coach at the phoenix boxing club in Nottingham and having worked alongside British and world champions Leigh Wood and Carl Froch, the culture was "Be tough, be hard or go home". Till one fateful day - having to deal with the reality of one of his young students committing suicide, was the catalyst to finally facing up to the fear. A commitment of wanting to understand why and how these debilitating mental health problems had dogged his life for so long, and a commitment to help others, with a combination of his own experience, qualifications in mental health and digesting countless books and studies he has written a personal and insightful account on how to deal with anxiety and depression once and for all.
