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Sophie Ndaba opens up about her struggles with depression

After being diagnosed with diabetes, being cyberbullied and being the target of death rumours on several occasions, actress Sophie Ndaba found herself in a dark place
During an interview with Sunday World about mental health awareness, Sophie spoke out about how it took her a long time to realise she was struggling with depression.

Sophie Ndaba

She said it all started when she was diagnosed with diabetes, which not only affected physically but emotionally and mentally as well. I think depressed people often don’t realise they are depressed. Everything I have gone through has put me into a corner at some periods of my life and I only realise it now that I’m stable.

Sophie Ndaba

Sophie explained how depression affected her work and personal relationships
“Depression affects your relationships with your kids, your partner, your work. You don’t do the same things you used to do. You’re like a zombie. I know because I’ve experienced it. It took me months to know it, to see it and to fight it, and to now say I am here and can help someone else. Sophie added that she’s now able to speak to other women dealing with depression and help them find mechanisms to fight it.

Sophie Ndaba

Just two weeks ago, the actress once again topped the Twitter trends list as fake news that she had died flooded the social media platform. Both Sophie and her husband slammed the rumours on social media.

In other news – New details emerge on Senzo Meyiwa’s death – He was accidentally shot dead, Kelly Khumalo knows who killed him

Senzo Meyiwa was “mistakenly shot”, allegedly by one of the seven people present at the home of his girlfriend Kelly Khumalo, but witnesses claimed it was an imaginary robbery gone wrong in part of a cover-up which involved senior police officers, Sunday Independent can reveal.

Senzo Meyiwa and Kelly Khumalo

Contrary to claims that Meyiwa was killed by armed robbers, the former Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper was “accidentally” shot when he tried to intervene in a quarrel between Khumalo’s sister, Zandi, and her boyfriend, Longwe Twala, at the singer’s mother’s home in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni, on October 26, 2014. Read more

Source: ALL4Women