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“You seem fine.”

Lisa Martens

Feb 7

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Do You Deserve to Say You’re Stressed?

The endless pain contest.

Do you deserve to say you’re stressed?

If you don’t have kids? Don’t work full-time? Don’t have a chronic health problem?

Do you deserve to say you’re stressed?

If you work fewer than 80 hours a week? If you’re not a doctor or a lawyer? If you have enough money for rent?

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Do You Deserve to Say You’re Stressed?

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