Katie Thurston Opens Up About Taking Antidepressants for 1st Time to Bring Herself ‘Out of Dark Place’

usmagazine.com:

Getting vulnerable. Before Katie Thurston’s season of The Bachelorette began airing last year, she was in a dark place.

Now, she’s getting candid about her mental health struggles, even admitting she began taking medication to help deal with her emotions.“I started taking antidepressants for the first time before my season aired.

I thought I knew what to expect,” Thurston, 30, wrote via a lengthy Instagram message on Friday, January 21, alongside a swimsuit snap where she’s blowing the camera a kiss. “I didn’t.

I thought I was strong enough to handle the negativity. I wasn’t. But they say time heals everything.”In her social media upload, the former Bachelorette went on to thank her supporters for continuing to “show kindness,” noting that “last year somehow feels like 3 years of highs and lows.”“I remember a producer texting me saying, ‘The old Katie is dead and the new Katie will rise from the ashes.’ He was right about one thing,” the Washington native wrote. “The old Katie did in fact die.