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When roommates become enmeshed in each other's mental health struggles

My roommate and I both work from home and we started as strangers but now we're deeply involved in each other's daily struggles with depression and productivity, and I can't tell if we're helping each other or creating a feedback loop of dysfunction. We care about each other but I think our support might actually be enabling our worst habits.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Proximity and care have created interdependence that may be perpetuating the very problems it seeks to address.

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