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Old coping skills that don't work like they used to

The Overwhelmed Brain

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When You Leave a Toxic Relationship, You Just Give Yourself Time

After leaving a toxic relationship, you have to give yourself time for the fog to lift. You're going to be clear on some things and some people will be more clear sooner. When there's been a lot of trauma and a trauma bond has developed where you mix love and abuse, it takes a little while to snap out of that. And oh my God, well, I ever get back to who I was," she says.

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