Theresa May has decided to make mental health a priority, and this week announced more help, particularly for young people who fall ill. But there simply isn’t enough money for adequate treatment at the moment, whether it be talking therapies or hospital beds. Perhaps the Prime Minister plans to release more money in the future. If she doesn’t, the government’s commitment to putting mental health on an equal footing with physical health will be impossible to realise.

The health system is disheartening. But there are many things that have cheered me as I’ve recovered. Like the journalist unsure about depression a few years ago, society has recently become kinder. A friend who had taken time off in 2010 for anxiety told me normally loving people had instructed her to ‘snap out of it’. Today that would be unimaginable. My friends and family have done everything they possibly can to help me, including biting their tongue when I cancelled on them for the third time, or leaving work early to look after me.