In 2013, two years before I was diagnosed with severe exhaustion depression and panic attacks, my life was never idle: Monday was the business Oktoberfest, Tuesday I watched the Champions League semifinals live in the stadium, and the next business appointment at the Oktoberfest was on Wednesday , on Thursday I celebrated at the Mando Diao concert. My university girls visited me at the weekend. During the Wiesn there is a general state of emergency everywhere in Munich – but even during the other 50 weeks of the year I sometimes wondered whether the others had really done as little as they said. I, on the other hand, often left half of it out when someone asked me about my weekend.

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