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How to share space when mental health needs conflict

My roommates and I all struggle with mental health but we cope in totally different ways - some need quiet and isolation, others need social support, some are medicated and others aren't. Our apartment has become this complicated dance of competing needs and we've never actually talked about how to live together through this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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People trying to care for themselves and each other are finding their survival strategies are incompatible.

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