I'm bored and my head still hurts, so I'm going to post more of it below to distract myself. It is not meant to be good. It is meant to be bad. Very bad, but if it actually seems helpful—let me know. That would be ridiculously meta.
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Technically, I've written half a [fake] self-help book for a story I'm writing. It's filled with lines like this:
"To soften is not to break. It is to refuse to harden into what hurt you. You are not returning to your old self—you are remembering who you were before forgetting became survival."