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When depression familiarity makes recovery feel like losing yourself

My psychiatrist wants me to try transcranial stimulation but I have become so used to being depressed that I do not know who I would be without this familiar suffering.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Long-term illness becomes so integrated with identity that wellness feels like stepping into an unknown and potentially empty version of existence.

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“Where Are You with ECT and neurostimulation?”

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