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When family members share mental health struggles and enable each other

My teenage daughter and I are both dealing with depression and sometimes we feed off each other's darkness in ways that feel both comforting and destructive, like we're the only ones who understand but also like we're keeping each other stuck.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The intimacy of shared suffering can become a refuge that paradoxically prevents the very healing it seems to offer.

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