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All of the Good Things | Friday Freewrite

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I am not my mental illness

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Jolie Doggett
Nov 10, 2023
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“I love myself when I’m laughing.” - Zora Neale Hurston

My therapist told me during our session this week that once people learn their diagnoses or discover the childhood roots of their triggers, they tend to think their work is done. They figured out the why of their behaviors and their mental health woes. 

But my therapist pointed out that these discov…

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