My mother had intense mood swings, and my father was emotionally unavailable. To protect myself from my mother’s emotional and physical abuse, I went into a world that felt safer: My trance. I had no close relationships, and I was sure I had no personality; there was something missing in me. This is how I lived my life; this was my trance, my way of not being…
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