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I Am The Whole Taylor Swift Debacle

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It had to be the whole Taylor Swift debacle, I thought as I sat across from once mega-celebrity baby, now mega-celebrity teenager North West. Although initially I was sad to see her in my office, I was still glad she was seeking out treatment for her depression. At the age of 17 North had enough star power to “break the internet” with her social media posts. The young adult in front of me however, seems unhappy, and to have developed serious anxiety as a result. Even some of her fans have noticed it throughout her social media posts because she has appeared this way for the last year. Ultimately, I suspect she may have major depressive disorder, and more than likely a concurrent anxiety disorder. After reviewing her symptoms, I was glad that we were able to come up with a possible plan to help her manage her symptoms.
In our meetings, I began by taking a more psychodynamic approach, because when we first began North would say that she felt sad, but she did not know why. So I let her talk, and we found that ultimately North was feeling depressed always being visible in the public eye since such a young age and being forced to grow up on the set of Keeping up with the Kardashians (KUWTK). It was not so much that she did not initially feel loved by her family and parents, she just did not seem to know anything other than the highly publicized life she had been living. It was not until the had turned 10 did she realize that things in her life were not only different than other

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