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When family living situations amplify everyone's mental health struggles

My adult son moved back home after his divorce and we're both dealing with depression but in completely different ways - he sleeps all day and I clean obsessively - and living together is making us both worse. We love each other but we're triggering each other's unhealthiest coping mechanisms.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Proximity can intensify rather than soothe individual suffering when coping mechanisms clash and create cycles of mutual triggering.

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