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How to maintain friendship after shared mental health struggles

My best friend and I both went through major depressive episodes at the same time last year and we supported each other through it, but now that we're both doing better we don't know how to relate to each other without the shared crisis and we're both afraid to say that out loud.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who bonded through mutual suffering are discovering that recovery can paradoxically threaten the intimacy that crisis created.

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