Healing from Misdiagnosis
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The Light and the Lie
For as long as I can remember, I couldn’t see the light.Not in myself.Not in anyone else. Without it, I couldn’t trust.Not my instincts.Not my mind.Not the people around me. At some point, my mind had already fled.Split off in self-preservation,When my body encountered a truth it couldn’t bear. The friend who was also a… Continue reading
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Dabrowski’s Lost Children
We were never brokenWe were never selfishWe were never sick We were born sensitiveGiftedIntense What the world called dysfunction was overexcitabilityThe kind that sees deeperFeels harderThinks endlesslyImagines wildlyLoves without limits We had too much emotionToo much thoughtToo much empathyToo much energyToo much soul for a world that did not know how to hold it So… Continue reading
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