After depression and anxiety forced her to quit university, Nadine Pinnock was at a brutally low ebb - and worse still she was totally broke.

The 22-year-old was struggling to pay her rent and had already sold her her car as well as some of her most treasured possesions.

In last ditch attempt, the aspiring journalist sent out a desperate tweet looking for jobs.

Nadine began by asking for a modest fee of £5 - far below the minimum wage of £7.70 per hour.

And the response was amazing - her message was retweeted more than 3,000 times and amassed 5,000 plus likes as well as receiving several job offers.

She said: "I’ve been applying exclusively for full time, minimum wage jobs, but now I will hopefully be able to work part-time and spend my free hours creating."

Nadine, originally from Portsmouth, moved to Cardiff to study journalism before dropping out due to her deteriorating mental health.

She said: "My entire university experience was clouded by my mental illness, but third year was the worst.

"I was trying so hard to ignore it and took on a lot of extra-curricular activities."

However, masking the symptoms soon backfired as Nadine's mental health spiralled out of control

"I found myself in a really dark place," she added. "I couldn't face lectures, seminars or any assignments and my grades began to drop drastically".

This took a further toll on her mental health as she "felt defeated".

"I realise I needed to change something, so I emailed my personal tutor. She was so kind and together we decided that the best thing to do was to take a break, step aside from my studies and put my health first."

After dropping out of university, it soon dawned on her that she faced another challenge as she entered into the job market - paying her £350 a month rent as well as household bills.

Nadine, who has had depression since she was 17, spoke about how the hidden nature of her mental illness meant that she could she could easily hide the fact that she had anxiety and depression on paper.

However, the symptoms were sometimes all too visible in job interviews.

She said: "I found that most of my barriers to work were self-inflicted, which can be awful, as I blame myself for a lot of my failings, but my friends remind me that I do have a medical illness and it's bound to happen."

Nadine reached a tipping point when feelings of anxiety and depression really started to take a hit.

She found herself so skint that, even with a job, she "wouldn't have a large enough payday before rent and bills were due, and there was no other way to pay for them."

Her dire financial circumstances exacerbated her feelings of anxiety.

She added: "I panicked, I needed any possible job to earn as quick as I could".

The chain reaction of these events lead her to appeal by any means, including through social media.

"I felt incredibly embarrassed writing that tweet," she addmited. "It felt pathetic, but I had run out of options."

But Nadine received scores of job offers.

While others, touched by her plight, donated her money via PayPal.

She said she was overwhelmed with the kindness and support she received from strangers on the internet, noted that surprisingly, she hadn't been sent any strange requests - other than "a couple of invitations to go on a date".

As well as a couple of freelance jobs, she has also been offered a job at a vegan coffee shop.

She added: "My life has changed so positively, so quickly, and I can't put into words how grateful I am for people's support - whether that was a donation, a job offer or even just a message telling me that things will get better."

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In an effort to pay back the kindness of those who have donated to her, Nadine said she planned to raise money for two charities close to her heart - Huggard and Big Moose.