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To the Man Who Publicly Humiliated Me When I Was in a Depressive Episode

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To the man who publicly humiliated me in the midst of a depressive episode: It has been two years to the day that I was belittled, screamed at, sworn at, and made to feel like garbage.

I have thought about your words every single day for the past two years. Maybe it’s because no one had ever spoken to me in such a way in my entire 25 years of life, or maybe it’s because I was feeling things so deeply during my episode that what you said cut deep enough that it was impossible to heal on its own.

I have spent the last two years blaming myself, being terrified of the same incident happening again, and picturing you every time I am driving behind another car.

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