The thought of leaving her house would send 15-year-old Mary’s severe anxiety spiralling. The teenager, from Huddersfield, said for two years she would often spend days locked in her bedroom unable to face the outside world.<\/p>\n
“I would have panic attacks thinking about leaving the house,” Mary said.<\/p>\n
“It was so frustrating because I wanted to go see my friends and I wanted to have all these teenage experiences you see in the movies.<\/p>\n
“It sounds really silly, but you see all these people doing stuff and you want to do it too, but it was so hard.”<\/p>\n
She said she found it hard to explain why she could not meet her friends and feels she “missed out” on part of her teenage years.<\/p>\n
Mary has been receiving mentoring and support from the Mirfield-based charity Northorpe Hall Child and Family Trust for 12 months.<\/p>\n
“Mary is an incredible young person,” mentor Lydia said.<\/p>\n
“She’s has so many struggles, and so many struggles that she’s hidden away really well, because on the surface Mary is such an articulate, confident young person – but the huge barrier was literally getting her out of the house.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The thought of leaving her house would send 15-year-old Mary’s severe anxiety spiralling. The teenager, from Huddersfield, said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-491096","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\/491096","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=491096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}