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You can see it in her face. Waringa Kamau has a deep gaze and a disarming smile. She speaks with grace and clarity, testimony to her episodes as an intern with global media outlets including CNN, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg. With a promising stint at a tech company in San Francisco, US, her career was ready for takeoff.
But Waringa (she likes to be referred to by her maiden name) at her breaking point. For close to five years, the 30-year-old fought a lonely battle with depression, anxiety attacks, drug and substance abuse that took her to the lowest depths of the abyss. Like a star that was losing its energy before plunging into a black hole, Waringa was living on the edge. Any misstep and the rest would have been history.
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