Every Story is an Opportunity

On writing up depression to create a new life

Kitty Hannah Eden
Nov 2 · 6 min read

I write to stay alive.

This may still sound overly dramatic and yet I’ve been changing my life one word at a time since the summer of 2018. For context, I am a journalist but major depressive disorder took away my writing voice and thus my livelihood for five years.

Kitty Hannah Eden

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