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When depression creates a cycle of social withdrawal

My depression makes me cancel plans and avoid social events and I know I am creating the isolation I fear but I cannot seem to stop the pattern.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mental illness can make the medicine we need—connection—feel like poison, trapping us in cycles of self-imposed exile.

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