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When hiding your struggles teaches others to suffer alone

I kept my depression hidden from my family for years and now my teenage daughter is struggling and will not talk to me about it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The vulnerability we refuse to show becomes the help our children cannot ask for.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Unintended legacy — what we leave without meaning to?”

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