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🌀 I suppose I shouldn’t have even listened to

🌀 I suppose I shouldn’t have even listened to these stories that weren’t, but became, mine. I just didn’t know how to not hear.⁠
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📝 Throw Pillows and Coffee Mugs: Accoutrements of Trauma, Abuse, and Recovery by Alan Caldwell⁠
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#trauma

🌀 Lots of people are scared of death, but havin

🌀 Lots of people are scared of death, but having thanatophobia—a clinical, often crippling fear of death—is quite different than what most people experience. Join Sibgha Akbar as she writes about recovering and accepting; all at the age of 17.⁠
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📝 How a 17-year-old Struggled with Thanatophobia and Learned to Accept and Recover by @sibgha.akbar⁠
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#anxietyrecovery

🌀 Given a do-over, my eyesight is the one thing

🌀 Given a do-over, my eyesight is the one thing I would change about myself—and that’s coming from a clinically depressed, anxiety-ridden recovering cocaine addict.⁠
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📝 Looking, Down – The Mental Health Impact of Vision Loss by Christopher Dale⁠
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#depressionrecovery⁠
#addictionrecovery

🌀 Starting mainstream schooling later in life,

🌀 Starting mainstream schooling later in life, Jonathan Riley had trouble making friends, speaking publicly, and reading at grade level. All of this piled on with depression meant they had a lot of work ahead of them.⁠
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📝 Can Hard Work Can Beat Depression? by Jonathan Riley⁠
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🔗 https://oc87recoverydiaries.org/beat-depression/⁠
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#depressionrecovery

🌀 So for most of my adult life, I never confron

🌀 So for most of my adult life, I never confronted my own mental health issues. For much of that time, I felt alienated and angry at everyone around me.⁠
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📝 Bipolar Disorder, Independence, and Living in the 21st Century as a 20th Century Woman by Lena Walton⁠
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#aspergers⁠
#livingwithbipolardisorder

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