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Early-Onset Puberty Could Be the Source of Adult Depression in Some Women

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Early-Onset Puberty Could Be the Source of Adult Depression in Some Women

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“Quite frankly, I’ve been depressed for most of my life,” says Latoya Shauntay Snell, of Brooklyn, who started menstruating at the age of 9.

“The earliest time that I can recall being depressed was around 9 or 10 years old,” Snell continues, who is now 32 years old. “I was diagnosed with mild depression when I was 20 years old. Post-partum depression came about when I was 22. It graduated to seasonal depression in 2008 and moderate-level depression after the weight gain, around 2011.” Snell is now a freelance chef, a photographer and a blogger for Running Fat Chef.

Little did she know, scientists have linked early onset of menstruation to depression during the teenage years, for some time now. A new study out today in…

Please read original article Early-Onset Puberty Could Be the Source of Adult Depression in Some Women posted on Healthy Black Girls on 26 December 2017 | 10:27 pm —

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