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Old Jan 14, 2021, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by The Black Dog View Post
I totally normalize things about my illness. I do a lot of reality checking with my therapist and even random people that I might interact with. “Is it normal that ... Do you also find yourself doing such and such...”

I think normalizing is pretending that things are "normal", acting as if you're okay when you're not...detaching yourself from an abnormal situation or inner pain so as to appear normal to others.
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