"Every situation and comment was filtered through the lens of ‘I am not enough’, ‘I am a failure’, and ‘I am a burden’, leading to a distorted self-image and a sense of being unloved unless I performed perfectly, Even when I graduated and secured a good job, it did not come with happiness as I thought."
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