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Coming Out of The Shadows

Three years ago, when Zhang Chen was a university sophomore in Wuhan, Hubei Province in central China, she started forgetting things and feeling drowsy all the time.

“I could never remember what happened the day before, and in the afternoon I would forget what I did in the morning. I would fall asleep during class and my classmates couldn’t wake me up,” she told ThePaper.cn.

Then she was diagnosed with depression. Thunderstruck at first, she gradually traced her symptoms of depression to her high school years. She recalled that at that time she was bullied by other students but the teachers and her family ignored it.

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