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"Part of me knows this is an overreaction... but to my jacked-up nervous system, these events are death-penalty-level infractions."
"The world was fading and I realized I had to get offstage before I passed out. I had no choice but to leave."
"We were like two feral raccoons thrown into the same cage bonding with one another brought up anguish wed spent decades trying to self-medicate."
"For all my years of training in emergency medicine ... I didn't know how to process my own [trauma] because I'd never been taught how to do it."
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"I had strap marks all over me, like Id been attacked, the actor recalled of the intense scene, which aired in the HBO series' sixth season.
"The women I met not only validated my experience by sharing their own, but I found comfort that they too were stuck in The Land of Retrospect."
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