Hello, my name is Valeria.. I'm somebody who has been struggling with depression since i was a child, however it got really bad during the first year of the pandemic where i had a major mental breakdown. Since then, i started to notice that among the usual depressive symptoms many things that used to be really easy for me to do like learning new stuff and getting invested in the things i used to love has become a lot harder. I also started to feel like a brain fog slowly has settled into my mind, like a really nasty one.

I sometimes even forget basic things like where did i left my cellphone, and i didn't had those episodes of forgetting as frequently years ago. I feel like i might even become senile at such a really young age (I'm only 21), i struggle with basic things that i used to find extremely easy to do before the pandemic happened.  And about that, i got COVID months after i noticed that the brain fog started to ruin my entire life.

I used to be one of the gifted kids at high school, but now i dropped out of college three times because it's all so overwhelming, everything's harder, and i just feel really unmotivated.

BTW, i got an official Major Depressive Disorder (F32.3 specifically) diagnosis a month ago.