‘I would end up in hospital feeling like I was about to have a heart attack and a stroke at the same time’

When Camilla Field started suffering from anxiety, her freedom came through a mix of physical, mental and spiritual help.

My journey with anxiety started about thirteen years ago. I was in my late thirties, my husband was curate of a busy church plant, we had a toddler and a baby, and my father died just before our second child was born.

I agreed to help at church in a role that was outside my skill-set and that I didn’t feel called to. That’s when I started not to cope. It all came to a head about five years later with increasingly frequent episodes where I would end up in hospital feeling like I was about to have a heart attack and a stroke at the same time. That’s when a good friend who is a doctor diagnosed these as nocturnal panic attacks and suggested I see my GP.