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Are we SAD and don’t know it? | Afro

By Dr. KaNisha L. Hall, M.D. Special to the AFRO How could this be? In this new normal of pandemic panic, political anxiety and socially distant seclusion, I find it hard to keep track of exactly what I am feeling on a day to day basis. Did I mention, I have PTSD from witnessing the […]

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