Unpacking Depression Through Lived Experience & Clinical Insight

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another 10- 15 minutes hearing from Dashmani. And then I and then we will open up the the um the panel to questions and which you can put in the text box and hopefully there will be both an educational very in and maybe even an inspiring experience. So without further ado, Jessica. >> Hi, thank you so much for having me. Sorry I was having difficulty changing my name on the on the screen. So I am here to share my journey about struggling with depression. And just to give a brief history, I've struggled with anxiety basically my entire life since I was very very young. And then 7 years ago I was introduced to depression. Um I've been running an at home daycare. I work with 2-year-olds. I've been doing it for 15 years and 7 years ago we finally bought our first house. Um, and I'm not a legal daycare, meaning parents are happy, kids are happy, but it wasn't legal and somebody complained and the state showed up during dismissal um over over the summer while I was running camp. My body at that moment went into like a freeze response. I totally froze. I couldn't move. Um, I remember one of the parents came in and literally walked me from the outside. We doing dismissal into into my house and continued the rest of dismissal. The next day, I started doing everything that I possibly could to become legal, taking all the legal legal steps, all the documents, whatever I was supposed to do to become legal so I could continue my job. While I was doing that, my body started going through what now I

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1. 1:04another 10- 15 minutes hearing from Dashmani. And then I and then we will open up…
2. 6:02it's hard to do when I'm feeling depressed because my brain tells me to isolate and…
3. 11:17about depression. It's startling to know that the number of Americans aged 12 and up is…
4. 15:59transient and it doesn't disrupt daily life and it's a healthy emotion. Grief also is a…
5. 21:14approved. Even though there's a lot of maybe articles out there about using it, it's still…
6. 26:12there is a there is a trigger is what what I call it in clinic where…
7. 31:04share from my own personal experience. I can't share as, you know, a whole population. But…
8. 36:26ketamine. You mentioned ketamine Dr. Yiani very quickly and you mentioned micro doing and especially in…
9. 41:16fatty acids can help with cognition. They can have anti-inflammatory effects that help regulate mood. There…
10. 46:08I to summarize is a condition whereby um whereby really those feelings and the associated symptoms…

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