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I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.