My teenage daughter and I are both dealing with depression and we've fallen into this pattern where we either completely avoid talking about it or we spiral together into these really dark conversations that leave us both worse off. I want us to be able to support each other without becoming each other's emotional anchor.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people sharing the same struggle can become either genuine allies or unconscious enablers of each other's patterns.
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