San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder will return to office on June 29 after taking a three-month leave of absence due to a mental health challenge.
Fielder’s office denied a request for an interview, but the supervisor said in a video on Instagram that she left the work that she loves so much “not because she wanted to, but because her mental health demanded it.”
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“I was going 100 miles an hour since early 2023 when I started that campaign for supervisor, and being a grassroots candidate is a lot of elbow grease,” Fielder, 31, said. “This leave and even my whole adult life has been an entire journey on mental health. And I know I’m not the only one who struggles with it.”
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