Cell biologist Keisha Hardeman describes her journey with mental-health challenges, and the power of therapy.
Cell biologist Keisha Hardeman encourages other researchers struggling with their mental health to talk to therapists, mentors or peers.When thinking about disabled scientists, physical circumstances tend to jump to mind — someone who uses a wheelchair, wears a prosthesis or is blind. Keisha Hardeman, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, speaks about her hidden disabilities: depression and anxiety.
I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety when I was 21 or 22. For nearly 18 years I have seen multiple psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists. I’ve done individual and group counselling. I have been off and on medications. This is sort of an invisible disability.Not at first. One friend responded, “But what can you be depressed about?” Many friends and colleagues didn’t understand where I was coming from or how I felt.
During my first year at Vanderbilt, my father died after having heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. I tried my best to manage, but sometimes felt kind of ostracized as a person of colour from a low-income background who’s part of the first generation in my family to go to university.
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