2. Give your internal illness a name, too.
While Lily Burana had always been candid about her depression and anxiety, getting a third opinion this spring — forA.D.H.D. — made it harder to bandy her internal health easily, she wrote. SoMs. Burana gave “ the whole pack” a surname Bruce. As in Springsteen, a public figure who has been open about his own struggles with internal health. “ The surname allows me to efficiently keep people acquainted of my status, as in‘Bruce has really been bringing me down this week, ’” she wrote. “ The surname helps me lighten up about my own darkness.”
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