My wife and I both struggle with depression and when one of us is in a bad episode, the other either gets pulled down too or becomes this anxious caretaker, and we can't figure out how to be genuinely supportive without losing ourselves.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared psychological vulnerability requires learning to hold both care for the other and protection of one's own emotional boundaries simultaneously.
“Where Are You with African healing traditions for mental distress?”
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