[Kevan]

I forgot to mention the 3 decades of living with Epilepsy, diagnosed when I was 21...released from a life sentence 34 years later after a visit to a Neuro specialist and what felt like viewing the world through a goldfish bowl for over 12 months as my brain recovered from all those years of daily medication.
Your brain changes as it ages, the Neuro specialist said I could have grown out of it 20 years ago!

I still had my hobby to eagerly look forward to every week but I can't say that part of my life was 'normal'.

I feel 'normal' now so can appreciate other folks mental heath problems, ones you can't see can sometimes be the most debilitating.