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s04e57 | Dysphoria & Self-Acceptance, with Cynthia Breheny

Calmversations

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The Hardest Part About Talking an Abuse Is Getting the Words Out

"It's almost like, it's almost like a craving that you can't ever really satisfied. It's not something you're necessarily conscious of," she says. "In processing it all, i will still get moment of lank." She describes how her father would pretend to be someone else in order to control her. The abuse started when he was going to technical college and had an english class. He wrote letters pretending to be this person requesting things from his English teacher. After confronting him about the writing patterns they were exactly the same. Her mother didn't believe her at first but eventually did.

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