Candace Cameron Bure Discusses Her Experience With Depression

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Candace Cameron Bure opened up about battling depression and the challenge of asking for help. The 47-year-old Full House alum broached the topic during a recent episode of The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast.

During it, she spoke candidly about her experiences, explaining that even talking about the subject sometimes made her feel weak. Keep reading to find out more… She said that depression “is such a lonely place, and it’s very difficult to speak out about it, even to your most trusted people.” “It’s hard to admit it, at least for me, I feel like because I should be strong enough to overcome that and then it just feels weak,” Candace said. “It just feels so weak.

And the perception of that. And I’ll also say that there are a lot of people who feel that it’s weak and will verbalize that.

So then it’s just immediate shame that you’re like, ‘Oh, well if I struggle with this then I’m weak person.’” Candace added, “Yet there’s so, so many times when I’m like, ‘I don’t want to feel this way.’ I can try with all of my might to get out of this and I can’t pull myself out of the pit.