Few people knew how much Krysta was suffering because she chose not to share everything she was going through.
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Very few people to this day know how much I suffer. My family does not know. I do have two good friends that I was able to confide in but I don’t think they even really know the extent of how severely I was suffering.
Well, it is hard to talk about it with my family, in particular. My mom is very anxious herself so I felt sharing with her would just – she sometimes like fuels my anxiety or just – her anxiety gets my anxiety going, so it’s – it was like – telling her would not be helpful. And then with my father and his family just I don’t think they would be very accepting or really understand.
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