• Hardeehar@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Exactly. I have a friend who was going through it, even considered offing herself, but in the end she kept going and came out on the other side better and more mature than ever.

    It took years, but she’s now in a much better position, stable, and learned valuable life lessons.

    She would say she was just surviving, but the desire to keep enduring takes strength, and to those of us who have never been tested like that, it is absolutely, 100% strength of character and will.

    • Betch@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Yup. It gets really dark and heavy at times but we survive. Sadly it’s often only when you get out of it that you can see how much strength you really had.