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When roommates with mental health struggles enable each other

My roommates and I all struggle with depression and we thought living together would be supportive but instead we're just enabling each other's worst habits and nobody wants to be the one to call it out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Mutual understanding of suffering can become an excuse to avoid the accountability that actually promotes healing.

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