"What struggle don't I have?" I'd say, laughing, but beneath that humor is a real story of pain, burnout, and learning to rebuild myself, piece by piece.
I faced chronic pain, anxiety, emotional abuse, two burnouts, long COVID, and emotional eating—all before I hit my thirties. It's been a long journey.
For years, I pushed through it, unwilling to be the person people pitied or labeled as 'sick.' This pain was eventually diagnosed as ACNES.
Around the same time, I developed severe anxiety and panic attacks, triggered by an emotionally unhealthy relationship I'd been in since I was fourteen.
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