Garron Noone 'couldn't leave house for six years' and thought he was 'dying' from mystery illness
The Mayo native is the first guest on Doireann Garrihy's new season of The Laughs of your Life.
Social media star Garron Noone has opened up about his mental health battles after the tragic death of his pal. The Mayo native revealed he left school when he was 16-years-old after he was plagued by daily panic attacks, which stopped him from leaving his own home for several years.
Opening up to Doireann Garrihy on The Laughs of your Life podcasts, Garron said: “I left when I was 15 or 16. A friend of mine had died and that is when I finally dropped out because I ended up getting a load of panic attacks and stuff like that. I just started playing music in pubs and doing other stuff like that.
“A friend of mine committed suicide. He would’ve been 17, I was 16. I was having issues before that but that was the catalyst where I started having panic attacks every day and I couldn’t leave the house for five or six years so that was the end of the schooling. It was difficult.”
The 30-year-old TikTok star said he had “no idea” what he was suffering from at the time, admitting he thought he was dying from some unidentifiable illness.
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“I had no idea. I thought I was dying. The first one I had, I thought I was having a heart attack, so I went to the hospital, and they said I was fine. It was six months before I was told it was a panic attack.
“I had derealisation. The world looked like a dream. That freaked me out. Everything just had a trail, and everything just looked funny. It happens when you’re on high anxiety for a long time so there were six months where I wore sunglasses all the time because I thought there was something wrong with my eyes.
“I got it in my head I was dying with something. I thought I had every disease under the sun. I couldn’t fathom why my own brain made me feel that way.”
He then went on to develop a condition called Agoraphobia, which stopped him from leaving the house.
“It’s where I would go to the shop and have a panic attack so that part of my brain wired that anytime I’d go to the shop I’d have a panic attack, so I’d stop going to the shop.
“Then I stopped going outside. I stopped meeting anybody. There was a good year where I basically didn’t leave my room and ten years where I didn’t do normal stuff and five years where I was fully house bound.
“I could actually be driven to do a gig. I could do the gig but I'd generally have a panic attack halfway through. Those were the things I was able to do. But I always felt very normal. I just developed this insane level of anxiety. It took me five years to identify what was happening in my brain.
“I just thought I was dying with something,” he added.
If you or someone you know has been affected by the issues raised in this article please contact:
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