Tag: understanding mental health
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Accountability: The Bridge I Couldn’t See Yet
For years, I thought accountability meant admitting when I had done something wrong. Healing taught me that it went much deeper. I had to stop looking only at who hurt me and begin asking what I was carrying forward because of it. That didn’t make what happened my fault. Other people remained responsible for their…
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The Abyss Between Inside-Out and Outside-In
There is an abyss between what mental health feels like from the inside and what others can understand from the outside. I lived on one side of it for years. Healing eventually allowed me to see both. The problem isn’t always that one side is wrong—it’s that each side may be seeing a different part…
