The negative parts of it come from leaving it untreated and not addressed.

I was telling my mom about this.

We were having a conversation and she kind of expressed this like, oh, I don't know, I wouldn't want to be diagnosed with depression.

And I said, why? Why? If it could be helped, why would you not? not and she's like I don't know I guess I just really have some kind of something I'm hanging on to that makes me feel like oh if someone said I had it that it would like I don't know, if someone said I had it that it would like, I don't know,

unlock it could get worse, it would make it real, it would make me have to deal with it.

And so I was kind of expressing to her how, for me it's kind of of been the opposite it's like I finally feel more

in control rather than being something that gets like unlocked by diagnosis and now

is this problem and so I do think there can be that sort of fear or stigma about it depending on how you were raised

and what kind of culture you are brought up in and what your peers think about it and how they

talked about it could really affect the way you approach it.

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forcing me to form myself to

on this episode.

On this episode of the multi-ammery podcast we're going to have a hopeful

episode about depression and

often is talked about often and often is talked about but sometimes the way we talk about it

can add to the feeling of isolation or otherness or stigma or that this is something that you would want to avoid for yourself.

And while there's certain parts of that that are true, the point of this episode is to look at how depression can show up in relationships and how understanding it can actually be the best thing that's ever happened to you, or at least it's been the best thing that's been the best thing that's ever happened to you,

or at least it's been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

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