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Being Around People Helps

Being around people helps, it takes my mind off of it, when I am with friends I forget for a second. You know I am sad if I am by myself, I have learned on Bader 5 [the inpatient unit] that being around people helps. When I am around people I forget about the problems I focus on other things. When I am pulled away from other people it hits me and it comes back.

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