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Women's Rights & Issues

I_UndergroundPanther

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1. I have faced sexual assaults

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Feb 22, 2022, 11:34 PM

Feb 2022

And I have high blood pressure. Because I am always in a hyper vilagent state and cant turn it off no matter how much I want to turn it off.Trauma over and over has altered my brain apparently . And there is evidence trauma effects your dna too.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813956/

Because,sexual assault injures more than some people want to admit.

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