Let's just get this checked because you would with any other health issue.

I think it's really I think what you named is the accessibility to resources thing.

is something that so many folks in our country struggle with.

And so that when we're looking at barriers to care, that is something that many folks maybe that are listening to this are going to say, well, that's nice for you.

You have the resources to be able to afford therapy or insurance covers it or wherever geographically where you are.

There's so much being done to provide access to care in our country, even in very rural areas.

Please, please, please don't allow the belief that you can't afford it or that you don't have access to it to keep you from seeking it out.

Yeah.

My first question is, what does depression feel like?

Mm-hmm.

Depression feels like...

Well, it evolves.

It can feel like a very warm, heavy, weighted blanket.

It can feel like moving through mud.

It can feel like pure and utter hopelessness.

Mm-hmm.

OK.

And so that when we're looking at barriers to care, that is something that many folks maybe that are listening to this are going to say, well, that's nice for you.

You have the resources to be able to afford therapy or insurance covers it or the wherever geographically where you are.

There's so much being done to provide access to care in our country, even in very rural areas.

Please, please, please don't allow the belief that you can't afford it or that you don't have access to it to keep you from seeking it out.

And that's, again, something that 98 can be really helpful with is helping you find resources in your area.

There are a lot of remote options.

Yeah.

Perfect word.

Right.

Like I could feel everything around me.

I could feel my siblings experiences, my parents.

And I took that all on as if it were my own

experience.

Sometimes I would interpret it that they were feeling that because it was my fault.

But and so there was this like false