re: 4750 excess suicide deaths during the Great Recession

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I’ve never been ashamed to speak out about my daily battles with chronic, clinical depression and social anxiety disorder; they’re illnesses and aren’t something I chose.

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Thanks for sharing. I have dealt personally with mild depression but have been specifically yoked with anxiety disorders for 25 years, particularly mysophobia and agoraphobia. I suppose one of the unintended positive consequences of such is that I have two internally hard-wired mechanisms that happen to be the most effective preventions against contracting the virus. I wish you and yours well in this stressful time.