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By Mia Mercado May 10, Trying to understand your own mental health can be difficult in and of itself, let alone figuring out how to talk to your friends about mental health. However, having that support system can not only help in your mental health journey, it can strengthen the bond with the friends you choose to confide in. Going into a conversation on mental health completely cold is never easy. By the way, I have clinical depression. Anyway, how was your week?

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By the way, I have clinical depression.

Anyway, how was your week? Bonding over therapy stories and antidepressant doses with my friends is one of the most cathartic parts of lunchtime catch-ups for me. I spoke with Dr.

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Michele Kerulis over about how to approach conversations about your mental health with your friends. Kerulis is a professor for Counseling NorthwesternNorthwestern University's online masters in counseling program. As an expert in both mental health and relationships, Dr.

Kerulis has plenty of tips for broaching the subject of mental health. Rather than telling patients what they need to do to improve their health, motivational interviewing tries to engage with individuals so that their own hhow and values guide behavioral changes.

Steven Taylor, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of British Youd in Vancouver, Canada, said that confrontation is particularly doomed to failure when talking to people who have fallen down conspiracy rabbit holes. And while social media and the internet have made conspiracy theories part of the daily lives of friedns of people, Taylor stressed that misinformation is not a new problem — which may mean it doesn't necessarily need new solutions.

What he found most surprising is how much the events of this pandemic mirrored other large-scale outbreaks in history.

But for all the similarities, there are some key differences that have made social rebellion and the spread of misinformation even more hour in Hulsey's mother, Jan McAdams, said she doesn't believe masks are effective, but wears one when she's required to. She said she is very close with her son and wants to continue their relationship even when they strongly disagree.

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Shauna Bowes, who is pursuing a Ph. I love you.

And with an end to the pandemic within reach, surviving the events of this year may require strengthening the ties that bind in addition to preserving good health. ET : A version of this article misspelled the last name of John Hulsey.

He is Hulsey, not Husley.