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Margaret and Liz have been friends for about 5-years. They met through Tai Chi classes at the Thistle Centre in Edinburgh. The Thistle is a charity that offers support and wellbeing classes. Margaret started going there 13-years ago. She'd spent years prior with chronic back pain before finally getting a diagnosis of scoliosis. The pain had made her very isolated because physically she could hardly move. Margaret knew she didn't want to continue the way she was going. That's when she started regularly attending the Thistle Centre. Liz has now completed her degree in Public Sociology. She was diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder in 2011. She'd always struggled with anxiety, but at that point, she became completely burned out. She started attending the Thistle 5-years ago when her condition got really out of control. Starting Tai Chi, meeting Margaret and starting to learn techniques to manage her condition made a massive impact. She says she wouldn't have gone to university if it hadn't been for attending the Thistle. She now wants to take her experience and pass it on.