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Sharing the Holidays With A Mental Illness
'Tis the season to be struggling...
There is no good time to have a mental illness.
I mean, it's never convenient to carry that invisible heaviness around with you; to have to marshal every bit of energy to keep the persistent demons at bay, to muster up enough functional positive momentum to attend to the menial tasks in front of you.
There simply isn't an ideal spot on the calendar for such things.
Most any time of the year on any nondescript day, depression and anxiety make you feel slightly out of step with the world around you. You sense that you're a bit of an oddity, a foreigner, an…
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