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How parents and teens navigate mental health challenges together

My teenage daughter and I both have depression and I want to model healthy coping for her but sometimes I'm barely hanging on myself, and I don't know how much of my own struggle to share versus hide.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The desire to protect and the need for authenticity create an impossible tension in shared vulnerability.

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