Hey friends it's Jamie Grace welcome to the Waded Out podcast I'm super excited to jump into an audio message today from the app anchor A and C. H-H-O-R.

Look for the podcast waited out and you can call in and leave a message but here is today's question.

Hi Jamie, I have a question. I have a really good friend of mine.

We both like each other and I often think about what it would be like to actually be in a relationship

with him.

He is a great man of God.

The only thing is that he suffers with severe anxiety and depression.

It's really bad where most days he doesn't even want to live. But outside of that, he is a really

great person and I'm just curious what does it look like like what does that relationship look like dating someone that's that's really depressed and suicidal.

And is it even fair to even want to pursue a relationship with someone that is suffering that bad?

And just because I'm just curious to know what that day-to-day, that long-term

relationship would look like. Any thoughts? First of all, thank you so much for calling in and leaving a voice message. I mean that's a very vulnerable thing to share and that's very brave of you to share such a deep and intimate part of your life and of your friend's life as well.

So thank you so much for calling in.

I will say that if anyone listening to this podcast has a friend, a loved one, a neighbor, a school made a classmate, a coworker that is expressing

that they want to take their life and they do soon to be suicidal.

I want to encourage you to seek out help for this

person.

Even if someone has been diagnosed with anxiety and or depression and they are expressing

to you that this is normal everyday type of conversation. I would at least just encourage you to say,

hey, we need to talk to someone and we need to figure this out. A lot of you guys

might know that when I was 11 years old I was diagnosed with Tourette

Syndrome OCD ADHD and anxiety and I've dealt with a lot of mental health things in my own personal

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