Bridget A.
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At my worst I was reacting to my own shampoo and sleeping in a room with nothing in it but a metal bed frame. That was 2017. What helped was boring and slow: a genuinely clean bedroom, no fragrance in the house at all including on visitors, and four years. I still can’t do a nail salon or a cleaning product aisle. But I went to my nephew’s graduation last spring, outdoors, sat at the back, and stayed for the whole thing. I cried in the car afterwards. Not because it was hard. Because I did it.
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