To my daughter who battles the darkness of anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) at a mere 8 years old. I see you, I see your struggle.
I see the worry in your body language, I see it in the quiet of your eyes. I see it in the way you escape to your room and beg not to talk, when you joke that you are simply being antisocial.
I see it in the way anxiety also has the opposite effect, when you wake me up terrified of the nighttime because your stress is at an imploding level.
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