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I just remember feeling so lonely

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and disconnected from myself

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and my immediate family.

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And it was just this gap
that felt like it was always growing.

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And I just did not have the

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language, the emotional intelligence

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to start filling in that gap,
and nor did my mom.

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So we were just kind of looking
at each other like what is happening?

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And I think at the most intense
moment was when I probably started

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engaging in self-harm and severe

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anxiety, severe depression,

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probably some suicidal ideation,

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just absolutely drowning
in this isolation.

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But I think it was,
yes, isolation from my immediate family,

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but isolation
and numbness from myself.

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And just this withdrawal
from everything.

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But then at the same time,
I could go and hang out at school

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and put on this face of “I'm fine,
everything's great, Let me put on a show.”