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#37. They Still See the Person You Used to Be — and Proving You’ve “Changed” Is Feeding Your Chronic Illness
You changed. They kept the old version of you anyway.
Maybe it was a season you're not proud of, a decision you made with what little you had at the time, or a moment someone witnessed and never let you forget. You've grown a hundred times over since but some of the people closest to you never updated the picture. What no one tells women living with chronic illness is that being held in someone's worst memory of you is one of the emotional patterns driving your physical symptoms, and almost no one connects the two. The effort of proving you've changed carries a real cost.
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