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When Recovery Feels Like Losing Your Authentic Self

People tell me I seem normal now but I feel like I'm performing normalcy and have lost touch with who I actually am.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The social pressure to appear recovered can create a performative identity that distances you from authentic emotional and psychological experience.

Ideas that help explain it
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