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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
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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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