It’s both humiliating and comforting to be a statistic; it shoots a hole clean through our perceived uniqueness. Whether it’s realising our symptomology is not so different from the next person’s after all (I’m a therapist, I routinely see, with bundles of compassion, how none of us are so different. I see it in myself when I am in therapy recirculating…
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