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When family members share mental health struggles and trigger each other

My teenage daughter and I both have depression and we've been going to therapy separately but living together is still really hard — when one of us is having a bad day it seems to pull the other one down and I don't know if we're helping each other heal or just enabling each other to stay stuck.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people with similar conditions are discovering that proximity and care don't automatically translate to mutual healing.

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