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What you are telling me is that his few moments of pleasure are worthy of my entire lifetime of trauma.

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A revolving door is all I’ve ever known; I’m too much for people to stay. Anxiety may make me believe these things, but the truth is that people turn those fears into reality all the damn time.

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Depression is not only extreme sadness. It’s much more complicated than that.

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Whether you’re picking at your lips or your forehead or your fingernails or your scalp, it can take up hours of your time. It can chip away at your sanity. It can make you feel insecure and unable to control your impulses.

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Are the things that have always made you happy things that you now find unthinkable to do?

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It’s about wanting to cancel plans with a friend who means the world to me and not knowing exactly why. It’s about not wanting to show up at a party even though a part of me is dying to attend. It’s about having conflicting feelings about every good thing that happens to me.

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Believe it or not, I’m a foodie, so I understand the skepticism surrounding such a seemingly monkish diet plan.

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We finesse our way through our day only to fall apart at night silently, alone, and isolated.

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No matter what you eat, don’t sweat it off.

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Research has shown over the years that we don’t talk about disability rights as much as we discuss many other areas where we need social change.