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“No matter how strong you are, it will eat away at you”

THE MAIN problems I suffered through were because I found it so hard to talk to people. But I found the best thing to do was just get it out there, rather than bottling it up. And not talking is something you see on the male side of things – just look at the suicide statistics for males.

Some think it’s weak to tell people how they are feeling, but in

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