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When friend groups struggle to help someone in crisis

My college roommates and I have stayed close for fifteen years, but one of us is going through a really dark time and the rest of us don't know how to help without enabling, and we're all handling it differently which is causing tension in the whole group.

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Love can become paralyzed when good people disagree about what helping actually means.

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