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If You Don't Have Stress, You May be a Carrier

Embed from Getty Images I have long believed that depression can be cured when you take away the source of the depression. Not all depression, but a lot of it. Many people, including me, could have been saved from a world of depression and heartache if we hadn't been taken out by circumstances beyond our control. Death. Unemployment. Divorce. Sexual assault. A lot has happened in my life, and not all of it has been good. But I've been lucky to have loyal friends who have always supported me, and talked me down from the ledge. None of them had a pot to piss in, but each of them had a friendly ear, a warm hug, an open door. The world is a nasty place full of people who don't have stress but are carriers. They hurt you, mock you, leave you, bankrupt you, under-employ you, sexual harass you, put you down so far it looks like up. If I were a bettin' girl, I would say all those carriers are tweeting all over the place about the importance of recognizing mental i