Bake Off star Nadiya Hussain reveals she has suffered a lifetime of panic ...

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She's the bubbly mother of three who captured the nation’s hearts when she won The Great British Bake Off.

But Nadiya Hussain, who was crowned series winner in 2015, has revealed she has spent years fighting crippling anxiety.

In a brutally honest documentary, the 34-year-old has opened up about suffering from panic attacks for most of her adult life after bullies ‘flushed her head down the toilet’ at school.

She revealed her episodes are so bad she feels as if she is ‘going to die’ and something as small as a supermarket substituting a delivery ingredient can set it off.

‘Why am I making this documentary?’ she said. ‘Because I’m selfish. Because I want to get better. And partly because I know that having anxiety is probably one of the most lonely, most isolating things to have because you are your own worst enemy.

‘That feeling of worry is always there, it’s so heavy and it never goes away. I have a panic attack and it feels like I’m going to die.’

Before the

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