Mirian didn't follow up on her referral as she was not willing to pay for the services.

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So I just kept that referral and I looked at that referral and I thought this is too difficult to do right now. You know? Like, I have a newborn baby. I don’t have time to go after psychotherapy. You know? Like, my income is reduced because I am on maternity leave. And even though it could have been something that I might have been able to pay for, I wasn’t willing to pay for that. And I had no idea. I mean, I knew that it wasn’t easily accessible through Medicare – like, public Medicare. I know that they have some sorts of free treatments but there’s a long wait line, you know, like, waiting line and whatnot. And so I didn’t do anything about it in that period of time. So I knew that maybe one day it would have been – it would be a good idea to go back to doing psychotherapy. And so because I never went I wasn’t officially diagnosed.

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