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In 2021, Emma Javits, 35, thought she was going through a really, really bad depressive episode: She was barely able to get out of bed and do basic tasks. It took 3 years to figure out that her debilitating fatigue was due to long COVID, not just depression. 

She had been working as a licensed clinical counselor, running weekly group therapy sessions at an intensive outpatient eating disorder clinic in Los Angeles before the pandemic and throughout its first year. 

For Javits and many other mental health professionals, holding space for both her clients' emotions and her own was challenging as the world changed in what felt like the blink of an eye. Maybe her fatigue was from intense burnout, she theorized. As an essential worker, she was able to receive the first COVID-19 vaccine earlier than most, but she eventually contracted the Omicron variant of COVID in 2021. Head over to WebMD to read the full story.