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- Shane: It definitely helps a lot for a lot of people. And sometimes for some people there can be this stigma that they feel towards themselves that if they take medication it must mean that they're lesser or that they're weaker than other people. And it's not really like that. It's more If you were to receive a physical injury, say a broken leg, no one would tell you to just walk it off because that's just not how it works. And Troubles of the mind are similar to that. It's just that it's not as easy to see. It's not something you can just point to and everyone immediately understands the situation. It's something that you more have to get professional feedback on, and from there you could take steps to actually address it.