My job pays well and is slowly turning me into someone I do not like
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Be patient with yourself. Healing is not linear and you are not failing just because some days feel like a step backwards.
This community is lucky to have someone willing to be this honest. You make it safer for the rest of us to be real too.
Honestly thank you for writing this out loud. So many of us feel it and never say it. You just made a bunch of strangers feel less alone tonight.
Reading this felt like looking in a mirror. You put words to something I have carried silently for a long time. Thank you for being brave enough to post it.
Whatever happens next, this moment of honesty already changed something. You cannot unsee a truth once you have said it out loud.
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