Fabian Stang: – I went on a real heavy psychological blow – VG

The former Oslo mayor tells for the first time about the mental problems he had after going off.

During an interview in Sommeråpent Saturday night at NRK says Fabian Stang (H) that he has struggled with depression and anxiety after he resigned after eight years as mayor of Oslo.

– When I first completed my work and had time for me even so, I received a response and went on a real heavy psychological blow with hard depression and anxiety, says Stang.

During the interview notes Stang yourself that people probably are tired of celebrities talking about their illness, but that he thinks so many struggle with mental illness without being understood, that it’s okay that some of those who have difficulty telling about it.

autumn 2005 stood rail forward in VG and said he for over ten years ago was diagnosed with depression and anxiety.

– the pain is so bad

rod sat as mayor from 2007 to 2015. in October last year took Marianne Borgen (SV) as mayor.

– it’s politics being that one fight in the last hour of an election campaign to be reelected, and then it becomes a bit anticlimax awaking and almost received it says Stang.

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– what happens when one is struggling mentally, as many people do not have experienced it for yourself to understand is that the pain is so bad that if you break your leg and her feet sticking out, the pain moderate in relation to the mental pain if you have it hard.

Stang also says he has been honest about his mindset when people asked him how he’s doing.

– the nice when one is struggling, is that it goes over. Now I’ll work a bit and get me properly on their feet, so shall I work with what I really like, which is politics.

VG has been in contact Stangs advisor Rune Dahl, referring to NRK broadcast, saying that the former mayor did not want to comment beyond that.

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Got price for openness about anxiety

In 2011, Stang transparency award from the organization Mental health, for having told openly about his battle against anxiety and depression

once he was even anxious to be stigmatized because of their illness. The fear is he finished.

The first time Fabian Stang experienced anxiety over the body was in 1994, when he was sitting in an aircraft. He got a panic anxiety attacks, he told in 2005.

– It came as a thunderbolt. It was a reaction without an obvious cause, but felt as powerful as experiencing a bear standing on two feet in front of you. It was a very tough experience, told Fabian Stang on Godmorgen Norway.

Stang was so poor that he was hospitalized for a period

– But it’s not a sign of weakness to get help his mental illness, he said at the time.

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