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"Practice" with depression resonated with me. Having another episode feels much more familiar, and there's an advantage to having already recognized and improved a lot of issues with my thinking/coping patterns which exacerbated it the first time.

If your car breaks down twice, the second time still sucks due to the core problems of money and time loss, but you now have less uncertainty surrounding the logistics+scope of getting it fixed.

Mental health skills feel like a hard thing to teach in the abstract due to how personal a lot of the work is, but we could definitely do better. Occasional therapy as a normal preventative practice in healthy kids seems like a start