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Take me to the Sixth Station

As I have learned from this morning, when someone experiences an anxiety attack, all of their fears are physically expressed by their body. Anxiety attacks are pretty high up on the list of things children never wish to see their parents experience, along with crying and fighting. Something pulls their young heartstrings and causes quivering chins and teary eyes. In such a weakened state, their parents may accidentally let slip all their fears and unfinished tasks, which, to the child, equals I'm dying and I won't be able to take care of you. Especially when this happens to your seventeen year-old self, just as you are about to go to school, you forget that you are almost an adult. Instead, you wish that mommy will come back and tell you that she's fine and make the big bads go away. Like she always did. Like she always does. In the end though, you realize that you have to respond to the EMT and take care of younger siblings. And you just wish to be taken to the Sixth Station.



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