Writing things down tends to help a lot -- I kept a journal in India and that was very soothing during some of the times that I was having wee little crises (and not so wee crises). Focusing on both the experiences you're having and legimitising the feelings you're having (by studying them and writing them down) can help you appreciate the cool stuff you're doing while still acknowledging that you're going to feel kind of alone and weird when you're in a foreign country by yourself
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yeah, I think I'm going to start writing my experiences tomorrow- It's funny, but it's surprisingly hard to make the time to write all of that stuff down
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I don't know if this is exactly it, but I feel like our experiences have followed similar trajectories, because so much of what you say feels so familiar to me, either as something I used to have a lot of or as something I still have to deal with. So it feels really important to tell you stuff that I've done or at very least assure you that this does get better, because I've been through so much of it and I'm in such a better place than when I started. So I feel confident that you will too; you just need the time and the good care and for people to support you, the way I was fortunate enough to have.
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I don't know if this is exactly it, but I feel like our experiences have followed similar trajectories, because so much of what you say feels so familiar to me, either as something I used to have a lot of or as something I still have to deal with. So it feels really important to tell you stuff that I've done or at very least assure you that this does get better, because I've been through so much of it and I'm in such a better place than when I started. So I feel confident that you will too; you just need the time and the good care and for people to support you, the way I was fortunate enough to have.
SO YEAH.
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