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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Homosex. 2015 Oct 26;63(5):601–632. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2015.1111108
Walter: It's something about my mother, her depressiveness. Her presence, just being around her, it just shuts me down. It just brings me down. I don't know why. It always brings me down. When I'm with her, that's when I'm the worst. I'm depressed and don't want to deal with the world. I just want to stay in a little corner in my room, not having to deal with the world. That's not good. That's mainly the reason why I left my house.