# How Suicidal Thoughts and Depression Can Affect Clearance Eligibility

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**Created:** [April 6, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/how-suicidal-thoughts-and-depression-can-affect-clearance-eligibility/10499 "2020-04-06T15:58:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/how-suicidal-thoughts-and-depression-can-affect-clearance-eligibility/10499/11 "2020-05-26T15:32:42Z")

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Reframe from offering “pity” to “empathy.” Don’t pity anyone. But if you consider life from their point of view…maybe you understand better?

I think one of the best portrayed experiences of mental illness…just an actor…but a painfully sweet performance can be found in the last episode of Ozark. The brother of a main character has intense bipolar disorder. He painfully describes remembering what it was like before “the thing that broke my mind” happened. I think it really helps understand what some people deal with in their heads.

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