While caring for her child's severe eczema, Kaitlyn put her own care at the bottom of the list, which strained her mental health.
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I became so preoccupied with dealing with my child’s severe eczema that I just – my mental health just became so far down the list that I just kept going out of necessity I guess. And I just completely let myself fall through the cracks. Like the advice that I would give a friend, or a family member to like seek help and you know consider antidepressants, and go to make time for therapy and you know? Like I never ate. I was super skinny after I had my child. And everyone just praised me for like bouncing back, but it’s just because I wasn’t taking care of myself. But it like, looked like a good thing.
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