Pondering. Mental health experts often speak of five major life stressors —the kind that hit like an earthquake, shaking you to your very foundation. Over the past four years, I haven’t just encountered them; I’ve weathered their tremors, stumbled through the aftershocks, and am still navigating the rubble they left behind. They say, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But here's the truth: that's *insert indelicate expletive*. What doesn’t kill you doesn’t make you stronger—it leaves you fragile, like cracked foundations after a quake, prone to buckling under the slightest weight. Trauma is like that. It rocks, weakens, disorientates, discombobulates, shakes, and shatters. The depression that follows is the dust cloud that lingers, settling into every corner, making it hard to breathe or see a clear path forward. Trauma transforms in unimaginable ways, like surviving an earthquake that leaves your mental landscape unrecognizable. Disoriented...
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