Denise Welch has updated fans on her episode of clinical depression, saying she is through the other side.
The 61-year-old has been praised for documenting her depressive episode on social media, sharing videos of the hard times over the past few days.
Now, Denise has shared how she is feeling four days on from the episode starting.
The Loose Women panellist said: I just wanted to say I am through the other side of it. Depression is an illness. It doesnt have to be caused by any set of circumstances. In my case, my depression started to come on on Friday and here by Tuesday, its gone. Not one thing has changed in my life for good or bad, circumstantially, since then. Not one thing.
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I have no control of it coming on and Ive had no control of it leaving. But the fact is, today, on the fourth day, I feel fine. I feel tired, thats all. I am going to go out tonight and Im going to support my friend in her show and I will be amongst people, and I wont stay very long, but Im going, and I feel OK.
The mother-of-two continued: Those of us who live with a mental illness, it doesnt define us. It just happens sometimes, just as though you have a physical illness to live with. What we do is we enjoy the good times, when we feel normal – not happy, necessarily, just normal.
Denise concluded: This episode is done and its through and the visitor has left the building.
Followers and fans shared their well wishes with Denise, as well as thanking her for being so honest about mental illness on her Twitter account.
The former Coronation Street actress began documenting her depressive episode when she admitted it was difficult to have a shower.
She explained: This started yesterday with feelings of slight unreality, the atmosphere around me starts to change and how I describe it is that the colour goes out of my life and people Im around and that I love being with I dont want to be around.
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Things I have to look forward to I dont want to be part of and even just things I have to do this week I start stressing about maybe having to withdraw from something and maybe letting somebody down.
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