Healing From Painful Story Addiction

Acamea
3 min readMar 13, 2024
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“I don’t want to be sixty years old still talking about what happened to me when I was twelve. I said this to my cousin, who though more than a decade younger than me, held traumas just as mature by the time she graduated high school. So did her mother. So did mine.

Pain is relative.

I don’t think it kind or fruitful to compare. So many factors go into how deeply…

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Acamea

Pushcart Prize nominated essayist and memoirist. Author. Music connoisseur. Multi-passionate creative. I’ve lost a lot of sleep to dreams….