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Forced sexual encounters are not sexy, but daddies who drag their daughters to the gynecologist aren’t doing anyone a favor either.

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The earlier the diagnosis, the earlier treatment can be available.

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The truth is, we do want to work. We want to be able to function like a “normal” person, but we are unable to due to pain and/or other symptoms.

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Living your life by invalidating yourself to please others creates a deeper hole that you will have to fill in once you bravely start healing from your past.

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Chemical depression can happen to you even if your life is going great.

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It convinces me that I am alone in my thoughts and actions, that I am impossibly defective, too different to be understood.

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I see you.

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On my worst days, I forget to care about anything, especially myself.

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Since recognizing my anxiety and how it’s impacted my life this year alone, it’s become a hard truth to swallow that it’s not simply erased. I will have to fight it sometimes.

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A lot of the time, the reason you’re so stressed is because you have a million different goals to accomplish, problems to solve, decisions to tackle. Taking a break might seem counterintuitive, but if you keep going at this pace, you’re going to burn yourself out.