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Simone Bowyer

Simone Bowyer

Writer, author of "Chasing Light," and founder of Light Within Collective, exploring trauma, survival patterns, and recovery; also Operations Manager at Place Digital in Cape Town.

Sep 17, 2026

16:18
So for those of us who don't know, or some of our listeners who don't know, how did, how did treatment-resistant depression kind of manifest in, in your life? What were some modalities you tried before, and how did the ECT kinda change and revolutionize things for you?
16:37
Um, so just a bit of history.
16:41
So from, from the age of four...
16:42
I'm 37 now, so from the age of 14 is when I received my first diagnoses of clinical depression.
16:50
Um, so I have been treated with medication and in psychiatric care from the age of 14.
16:59
Um, and as I, as I got...
17:02
You know, there's some diagnoses you can't make, um, to a minor, so someone under the age of 18.

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29:55
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