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BBC journalist Ciru Muriuki opens up on her mental health, depression

BBC journalist Ciru Muriuki opens up on her mental health, depression
BBC journalist Ciru Muriuki opens up on her mental health, depression

VIDEO: BBC journalist Ciru Muriuki opens up on her mental health,depression: Kenyan media personality Ciru Muriuki has come out to speak on a number of issues that have affected her life and well-being in the recent past following a long hiatus from social networking site Instagram.

Ciru, who spoke in a video posted on her Instagram, admitted to putting a lot of weight, jokingly likening her present physical body to that of a rhino.

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The outspoken journalist also stated that she has not been a regular on the photo/video sharing platform due to self image issues.

โ€œโ€ฆIโ€™ve put on quite a bit of weight and Iโ€™m not really loving myself physically right now because Iโ€™m at the absolute biggest Iโ€™ve ever been. You know when you can just be walking past your mirror and Iโ€™m like, โ€˜what is that rhino? I have a rhino in my roomโ€ฆoh, No, itโ€™s me,โ€™โ€ she said.

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โ€œSo Iโ€™ve really been struggling with my self image and if youโ€™re not feeling good about yourself youโ€™re not going to be posting that many pictures of yourself, are you? But Iโ€™m working on it.โ€

The BBC journalist further confessed to suffering mental issues, depression as well as anxiety, adding that she has recently found herself seeking solace only in her work as well as sleep.

โ€œIโ€™ve been struggling a bit with my mental health; Iโ€™ve had moments of great anxiety; Iโ€™ve had a couple of depressed momentsโ€ฆOkay, Iโ€™m understating it, when I say depressed moments it sounds like I felt down for 4 minutes and thatโ€™s not the case. Iโ€™ve had periods of days and days turning into weeks that Iโ€™ve just not been Okay. And because Iโ€™ve not been Okay Iโ€™ve not had the motivation to do much else other than work and sleep, and social media has had to take a backseat.โ€

Ciru, an endometriosis warrior, also expressed gratitude to her lover and friends for being patient with her during these low moments.

Source-edaily.co.ke

 

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