May 8, 2015
My experience with depression and anxiety would have been so different had I not self-stigmatized and believed it would show weakness to admit I was struggling and needed help. Like so many others, I was sure I could bounce back on my own, but I was wrong. At that time we didn’t talk about stigma.
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