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"      Chiara de Blasio, 19, daughter of New York Mayor-elect Bill De Blasio, opened up about her struggles with depression and drug use in a video made by the De Blasio campaign in order to spread awareness.  &amp;quot;I have clinical depression, so that&amp;#039;s been something that I&amp;#039;ve always dealt with, or not known how to deal with. It made it easier, the more I drank and did drugs, to share some common ground with people that I wouldn&amp;#039;t have. It didn&amp;#039;t start out as a huge thing for me, but then it became a huge thing for me.&amp;quot; Her addictions worsened in college, although she had hoped for a fresh start: &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t do the mental or emotional work to prepare myself [for going to college.] I thought that my problems would go away if I got on a plane and flew 300 miles away.&amp;quot; Since then, de Blasio has attended outpatient group therapy and gotten sober, which, she says, is &amp;quot;always a positive thing.&amp;quot; Follow Anna on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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