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When trauma delays emotional development

My teenage years were stolen by mental illness and now I am thirty but feel emotionally seventeen and everyone expects me to act my chronological age.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mental health struggles can create temporal displacement where internal age does not match external expectations or opportunities.

Worth thinking about

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