{"id":369562,"date":"2026-04-08T13:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369562\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:23:25","slug":"i-quit-my-job-over-anxiety-now-lifes-a-bed-of-roses-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369562\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;I quit my job over anxiety &#8211; now life&#039;s a bed of roses&#039; &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFA2R01SdFVRNmFHV1ZKRXd1VHY5Q04tbjloRXV5NWxFRmF1UWdWZC16RUE3N1BBTFNNVEdPdF82SndQcGdFQ1hNd29OUnR2clZSS0F2Y2xveXZwUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;I quit my job over anxiety &#8211; now life&#8217;s a bed of roses&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi5wFBVV95cUxNN2VFckN3aW9qNWMtSlVQeW8zWFdkYXM2RDlCN0ZkOHhTSnd2UjNCUjdPVnBPSmp5UjdZbjJRQzg4a0FoTDFDZHh2VDQ0elVDZUg3cUpRakg5TXlwQkVSeV9XelhJSXJVMHk4Ym5RODIzMU9aS0dEVVZPY0RtUEMybzVLTFFraUJXTTBjal96SmZqYllBLUZkOElBX3p1SEVvZHozWGtNbFN4NEJNWDAwbTNzTllNdjVmZUVKRDVlWjNvMlFJOEhSRi1odlY0eWI5RVE3TGczdjZ4TFVVUWRtY2FmWnJSMkE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This is Natalie. She left her job due to debilitating health anxiety and spending \u00a31,000 monthly on private appointments \ud83d\ude14 Natalie invested thousands in healthcare while experiencing anxiety episodes several times a day. Her first symptom was getting a pain i<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;facebook.com<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxPNG5ydGtrLVRrc2lpXzk0YXMxQTJZSnZSZmxPWmlwNXBYMXI5OGVlQm55VW5YM3I4SlpMWUZSckJzZmFNbmRqSmRRMXlWdU9iNkotQmM3YmYtckt4ZDZDUUhnLWNic25FWTRtSEs4aVpTWjB1Q1lSamh6MDV0NGlaMVMtcnPSAYoBQVVfeXFMUHp1clRQM1cyM0R5Q2dPSWNvX3lNc2hkZ3BvMHRyMmV2VGZpVm9oU0VnVzFhY2l5TkVPcWR2eWxKV3J4SE9xNksxTTBaTEhlbGZmRnh2OVA0WUdQZ3NKRVFVaUlpOXBtQWdHZ2h6MjgwRlB4dUFDdXNRU185NDJMWFJiODRla1R2RDZR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;I quit my job over crippling anxiety &#8211; becoming a florist changed my life&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Lancs Live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;I quit my job over anxiety &#8211; now life&#8217;s a bed of roses&#8217;&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCThis is Natalie. She left her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-369562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}