The one lesson I've learned from life: TV presenter Simon Reeve says it's 承認する to be 壊れやすい

  • TV presenter Simon Reeve, 46, is best known for his travel 文書のs?
  • He grew up 欠如（する）ing 信用／信任 and went on to を煩う panic attacks?
  • He 明らかにする／漏らすd why he now believes strength is an illusion and it's 承認する to be 壊れやすい?

By Liz Hoggard for the Daily Mail

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TV presenter and author Simon Reeve, 46, has made travel 文書のs on Russia, Burma and Australia. He lives on Dartmoor with wife Anya, and son Jake, six.

As A 十代の少年少女, I 欠如（する）d 信用／信任. I was horribly embarrassed by everything I was and did. I’d just got glasses; my 脚s were growing like an orangutan; I didn’t fit 着せる／賦与するs. My dad was a teacher in a very rough school in West London, and I had a tricky 関係 with him, too.

I didn’t just flounder, I 完全に sank. One seemingly trivial moment sums it up ― when trying to say ‘hi’ to a girl I liked after school, I walked into a lamp-地位，任命する, and the kids at the bus stop had hysterics. It was a pathetic but 根底となる knock to me at a 批判的な time.

I started having panic attacks and throwing up. I walked out of school without taking exams and I didn’t keep in touch with friends. I felt I was slipping away from the path everyone else was taking. I 手配中の，お尋ね者 a 職業 as a 配達／演説／出産 driver, but believed it was beyond my reach.

TV presenter Simon Reeve, 46, (pictured) revealed how a series of steps took him from considering suicide from a sense of failure to realising that it's OK to be fragile?

TV presenter Simon Reeve, 46, (pictured) 明らかにする／漏らすd how a 一連の steps took him from considering 自殺 from a sense of 失敗 to realising that it's 承認する to be 壊れやすい?

I started to think a lot about ending it all. I believed 自殺 would 解放する／自由な me from the shame and the sense of 失敗. I 設立する myself on a 橋（渡しをする） late at night and the only thing that brought me 支援する from the 辛勝する／優位 was the 恐れる of the 苦痛.

結局, I got a 職業 working as a 地位，任命する boy in the mail room of The Sunday Times. My mum went with me for the first few days to make sure I made it.

It was hard, but my world started to open up. Maybe it’s a lesson for 十代の少年少女s: the workplace can be いっそう少なく scary than the playground. I started doing 研究 for 新聞記者／雑誌記者s, then 結局 令状ing.

Later I wrote a 調書をとる／予約する and moved into TV. My dad and I reconciled before he died, then I met my wife. Step by step is my mantra. For those of us who are a bit 壊れやすい, it’s a balancing 行為／法令／行動する. But I’ve tried to be as open as I can in my memoir and I’d encourage people to 株 their stories and sadness. Strength is an illusion ― fragility is in all of us. And that’s 承認する.

When I do my theatre 小旅行する, I’ve been staggered by how many mums come up to me and say: ‘Oh, that’s what my son is going through.’ I would love it if even one person thought: ‘承認する, it was bad for this guy, but he carried on and things worked out pretty 井戸／弁護士席 for him.’

Step by Step: The Life In My 旅行s by Simon Reeve (Hodder & Stoughton, £20). For 詳細（に述べる）s of his theatre 小旅行する, visit simonreeve.co.uk

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