Dysphoria

Danielle Dalechek
5 min readMar 4, 2021

Dysphoria is a strange, cruel thing.

People have told me that it’s hard to imagine for someone like me. I think they see “thin” and “strong” and think “better”, or maybe the word is closer to “easier”.

What they don’t see is the childhood bare bones; the raw wounds that can only ever scab over with time. Ready to bleed anew should the feelings stir up.

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Danielle Dalechek

Research Scientist & Writer, Artist, Fur-mom, and Dairy-free Foodie. Doctorate student at University of Stirling (as of 2021), studying ACEs and chronic pain.