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Coping with Depression

Eleanor Steafel writes for The Telegraph:

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s daughter Katharine Welby-Roberts has told how opening up to her mother helped her to seek help for depression.

In a film made for mental health charity Heads Together — the campaign spearheaded by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry — Welby-Roberts talks to her mother Caroline about how writing a blog about her experiences also helped her to cope.

Speaking from the kitchen at Lambeth Palace, Welby-Roberts — a police officer turned blogger — said: “It was only when it came down to writing my blog that I found I was able to explain to you more of how I was feeling and how I was doing.

“I think that was quite helpful for me to know that you had a clearer understanding of what I was dealing with.”

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