Núria Solé ('TN comarcas') reveals why she was on sick leave for six months: "I collapsed"

BarcelonaJust a year ago, journalist Núria Solé stopped presenting and editing the TN regions for six months. At that time, the reason for her long absence was not disclosed, but this weekend it was the communicator herself who explained the reason that led her to temporarily retire from television. In an interview on The supplement, presented by Roger Escapa, Solé has revealed that depression forced him to take a medical leave that, initially, he thought would be shorter.

The journalist said that there was no specific trigger for her crisis, but rather it was an accumulation of factors. Solé explained that she began to detect that something was not right when she suffered an anxiety attack coinciding with the day her mother was due to undergo an operation that, fortunately, went well. "They told me to go to the CAP and there they gave me sick leave. They told me: "Rest for a few days, because you are very distressed." At first I thought I would rest for 15 days and then go back to work. But it was extended by six months and ended up being a sick leave due to anxiety and ang., because when I had the anxiety attack I did not expect it to lead to such a long sick leave," she says.

"I collapsed due to a long-standing build-up. Anxiety attacks and depression can come from specific events, such as sudden losses, but they can also come from a build-up and long-standing tension. I have always been a very sophisticated person. I have always been a very sophisticated person." Solé, who has two children, believes that this self-imposed pressure, added to the current type of lifestyle, very accelerated and stressful, forced her to stop. "I didn't have time for myself. There were several circumstances, none of them very exceptional: the family burden, the workload, the anguish of wanting to do everything well, my mother's illness...", she adds.

Solé relates that during her leave and the recovery process she went through several emotional states that made her lose self-esteem and fall into depression. "There comes a time when you start to feel small, incapable, insignificant and insecure. It seems incredible to you that you used to be able to do everything you did. You start to feel like crying and you break down with things like deciding what to make for dinner for your children," explains the presenter of the TN regions. Added to all this is the feeling of guilt for being on sick leave due to an illness that is not physical but mental, which is invisible to most people.

To overcome this phase, she resorted to medication and meditation. "I took advantage of this moment of recovery to look for what had brought me here. Meditation is a mental exercise that allows us to realize that we are very much slaves to our mind. We project what we are going to do or what we have done, but we are rarely in the here and now," she says. Solé has decided to explain her experience because "going through a process in which your mind overwhelms you is something that many people have." "We must break the stigma. And I want to send the message that you can get out of it and that you have to be able to talk about everything," she added.