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"I wasn't suicidal, but I wasn't sure I'd jump out of the path of an oncoming bus." The depression caught Beth* off guard. After days of racing thoughts and frenetic activity, the 23-year-old law student was suddenly smothering beneath a black mood. She was scared. Her moods had been swinging from high to low for months, but this time the bottom fell out.

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