Two bricklayers meet at the construction site in the morning and while they work, they tell each other about their depression.

I’m depressed. Instead of: I have back.

“It would be great if we could get there,” says Atze Schröder. In his family, people get depression like Maurer gets the flu, he says, making it clear that depression is an illness that can affect anyone.

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