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Scott Morrison has opened up that he struggled to get out of bed at times during his prime ministership due to debilitating anxiety.
The former PM revealed that the pressures of the top job left him so anxious he had to be prescribed antidepressants.
The 55-year-old shared a candid insight into his mental health battles in his new book Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness.
He said that he couldn't look to a particular moment in his role as PM that triggered the anxiety, but added there were many factors at play.
'It was a very stressful period and the combination of the weight of issues, the length of hours that we were working, the physical demands that brought and to be honest the stuff around China was as, if not more, distressing than the pandemic,' he told The Australian.
Scott Morrison has revealed he struggled to get out of bed at times during his prime ministership due to his debilitating anxiety
Mr Morrison said the Covid-19 pandemic, and trade tariffs imposed by China on Australian products like wine and barley only added to the anxiety.
Tensions with China rose when Mr Morrison called for an independent inquiry into the origins of Covid.
He said most of his time in The Lodge was 'debilitating and agonising', and that without anxiety
