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Trains, TV & Sharing My Anxiety In A New City
Almost immediately after I received the email with my roommates for my off-campus study semester in Chicago, I looked them up on Facebook. Laura’s head was close to a food item that I didn’t recognize...
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How People Pleasing Taught Me My True Self
During my freshman year of college, I almost dated someone out of the fear of not being able to please him. I had become very close to one of my male friends from my hometown during the second...
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Giving In For The Greater Good
You sit in class fearful for what’s to come. You do your best to concentrate on what your teacher is saying and attempt to push the thought out of your mind. Despite your feeble attempts, you give in...
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New On Campus: Get Out Of Your Room
You’ve just arrived on your college campus. You’ve set up your dorm room so that it’s your own private hideaway. It’s perfect. Now what? Where to go when you want to meet people? Oh, it’s big, so,...
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I Pushed My Body Too Far
I’m a runner. I have been since 7th grade. It is something I have found that sets me free. I love it. I have a passion for it. However, in high school something changed. Running had always been...
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Misery, Heartbreak And Salad On The Floor
I am so horribly awkward with dating, relationships, and everything in between. I once went out on a blind date where we went to get Mexican food and I knocked my salad into my lap when he wasn’t...
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His Death Became My Fault
I’d always considered myself to be a fairly responsible person, taking care of what needed to be done and making sure I was on task or ahead on my schoolwork. But shortly after the start of my first...
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No Shame In Seeking Therapy: Finding Your Therapy Style
When I talk, he listens. When I need to cry, he lets me. When the urge to scream and rant and vent about every little thing that happened today overtakes me, he encourages me to let it all out. No...
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How Thoughts Can Illuminate or Darken Our Lives
I’ve never been diagnosed with any sort of anxiety disorder. Thanks to a self-made Internet diagnosis, though, I’m 99 percent sure that I suffered from a bout of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder at the...
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The Break Up Beat-Up
Breakups are hard. Breakups are awful. Breakups are never fun. They’re messy and sticky and everything uncomfortable bottled up into one situation. But… Why, in the aftermath of a relationship, why do...
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