I overcame depression; this is what worked for me

Ximena Escobar de Nogales
7 min readMar 30, 2020

Throughout these harrowing days of quarantine, I have been thinking of those who are currently suffering from clinical depression. I imagine that the loss of control that Cov-19 has brought upon humanity weighs heavier on the depressed mind than on a healthier mind. With depression, our own internal anxiety is compounded with a generalized sense of despair, and being quarantined may increase these…

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Ximena Escobar de Nogales

I write, to try to understand. I volunteer in prison, advice on impact investments and I run the Casa Taller El Boga, an arts residency in Mompox, Colombia