My name is Graham Isidore.

I have a progressive eye disease called Caritoconis.

And maying I'm losing my vision has been hard, but explaining it to other people has been harder.

Lately, I've been trying to talk about it.

Short-sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds.

By sharing my story, we get into all the things you don't see about hidden disabilities.

Short-sighted from CBC's personally, available now.

This is a CBC podcast.

Music So we had plans today to talk about Yeah, mom stuff.

Yes.

What's happened between you and your mom,

between when I saw you last and now?

Any updates?

Yeah, so basically we saw my mom on sunday and we showed up and

you know her house was like kind of in shambles and there were a lot of junk food wrappers and a lot of garbage on the floor and it just reminded me of my upbringing a lot.

And I think when I get to that point, I like shut off a little bit.

Hello, I'm Hillary McBride. I'm a clinical counselor. And that's a clip of a therapy session that I had with a client that we call Sloan.

Welcome to other people's problems, a live show about real life therapy.

Tonight we're talking about family inheritance. How our families, especially our parents and the environments that we grew up in,

shape the way that we are in the world and shape our mental health issues.

We start our podcast because one in five Canadians struggle with mental health every year.

When we looked around at media and pop culture, we saw that there weren't a lot of examples

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