I keep doom-scrolling the news until my chest is tight and I cant sleep
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This is the kind of thread people read when they need to breathe for a second.
This thread has a real pulse.
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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.
Sending you so much warmth right now. Whatever you decide next, please be as gentle with yourself as you would be with a friend saying these exact words.
One thing that helped me: I stopped trying to feel better and started just letting myself feel honest. Weirdly, that is where the relief actually started.
Sometimes the bravest thing is simply admitting how heavy it has been. You just did that. That counts for so much more than it feels like.
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