Annaka Harris
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Yeah, I mean, this is maybe too long an answer.
So I've experienced it in different forms.
So it was my I would say my depression has almost always mostly taken the form of anxiety.
I didn't realize how anxious I was.
think until I was an adult.
So I was always very functional.
I think, you know, all the positive sides of suffering in that way.
I think I'm a little OCD as you can tell.
Your psychology is just laid out in front of us here.
Just trying to organize.
But then I suffered from postpartum depression after both of my daughters, after both pregnancies.
That was a very different experience from anything I've ever experienced, but clearly I had a predisposition towards suffering from something like that.
Anyway, it really wasn't until I fully recovered from the second experience of postpartum depression that I realized...
that I had been suffering on some level my whole life.
And I think I always knew... I thought of myself as a very sensitive person, an empathic person.
I mean, I've been in therapy for 10 years.
I knew I had a lot of anxiety.
I would never have denied that I had a lot of anxiety.
I just didn't realize it crossed over into...
a disorder really until I was an adult and ended up taking Prozac.