You Me At Six: “Showing pain doesn’t make you weak. You’re just human”

Josh Franceschi was in his car when he realised something was very wrong. Actually, as he drove to his girlfriend’s mother’s house late at night on Christmas Eve 2021, it wasn’t so much that something was wrong as, ​“I felt like I was about to fucking die.” Had he not pulled over when he did, it’s not improbable that it might have happened. With his pulse suddenly shooting up like a rocket, and breathing as if he had no lungs, Josh was having a massive panic attack, ​“a complete meltdown”. “I’ve got my girlfriend sitting next to me, and she honestly thought I was going to die – that’s how scary it was,” he remembers today. ​“I’d lost the ability to speak because I had a seizure in my face. It was fucking wild shit, man.” Christmas Day was spent ...

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