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It’s already hard battling the self-inflicting negatives thoughts and feelings, but when someone you love dearly inflicts it, it’s a different type of hurt.

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You absolutely hate the thought that you could give a wrong answer or say the wrong thing. So, you keep quiet when you’re around your friends and family. You nod your head, and agree with their ideas and opinions because you don’t want to be liked less. 

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If you know there’s something we’re super sensitive about, don’t push the envelope.

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In hindsight, balancing those two separate lives during my battle with mental illness was more draining and painful than any of the actual effects from it. That entire time, I thought I deserved the exhaustion, and that no one would understand, but the truth is that I actually needed all the help I could have gotten.

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When you think that you’re unworthy, you lower yourself in your mind and raise other women above you.

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I never know what to do with compliments. They make me feel like I have cotton in my mouth.

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Rape only validates the lack of self-worth I already had, but many have told me that it’s up to me to change the thoughts and that I have a choice whether or not to believe them.

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You never send the first text. You never invite people over to your house. You’re so worried about rejection that you keep yourself in a bubble.