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Fall In Love with                                                                              BEING A SWEET PERSON



                       Helpful Living Magazine                                                                                     CAN LEAD TO DEPRESSION





                                                                                                                                     By Taneshia Johnson












































                                                                                                                                           y the sound of the          like myself for a while. I was       would only remember me as
                                                                                                                                           title of this article I can   lethargic, moody, didn’t feel      Taneshia- the social worker
                                                                                                                                           imagine a few thoughts      like getting dressed, and wigs       that couldn’t handle her own
                                                                                                                                  Bare running through                 had become my best friend            life and now has a therapist. I
                                                                                                                                   your mind right now. You’re         because I didn’t have energy to      didn’t want that to become my
                                                                                                                                   likely thinking how is being        do my hair. It felt like life was    reality. Therefore, I suffered
                                                                                                                                   kind even connected to de-          over. I felt stuck in a World of     for a couple years. Oftentimes
                                                                                                                                   pression, and lastly what is this   sadness and pain and did not         I would go through periods of
                                                                                                                                   author talking about. If these      know how to get out of it. I was     happiness. Life felt good and I
                                                                                                                                   are some of the thoughts going      a social worker, and referred        was able to enjoy myself again,
                                Like Our Page On IG @HelpfulLivingMag                                                              through your mind, no worries       my clients to therapists all the     but when I didn’t feel good it
                                      Download our free magazines &                                                                after I share my story with you,    time. However, the idea of me        felt overwhelming.  After a bad

                                                Visit our website at                                                               you will gain a better under-       seeing a therapist myself felt       episode of depression that al-
                                             HelpfulLivingMag.com                                                                  standing.                           like a defeat.  It felt as if all my   most caused me to lose my job,
                                                                                                                                   It all started when I was 30        effort to be the best social work-   I decided to go to a therapist.
                                                                                                                                   years old. I hadn’t been feeling    er, daughter, friend, cousin, and    While in therapy I learned that,
                                                                                                                                                                       co-worker were gone. People          I struggled with depression and

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