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My personal nightmare started around this time of year way back when I was just 14. As @Defaultxlove says, it's just a date, but the brain has a way of disappearing down the rabbit hole...
To my surprise astonishment, I'm now able to listen to this without necessarily getting flashbacks. It still makes me deeply uneasy given it was the soundtrack to one of the worst moments of my life, but a year ago it would have triggered me every time.
I've thought about therapy, though never followed through on it. If I ever did, I'd go for a female therapist. My trauma relates to being forced to wear women's shapewear when I was at school. I'd have great difficulty telling a male therapist about what it was like to spend years wearing a...