A first-person YouTube short in which the speaker (aged mid-to-late 20s) describes severe depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and functional decline they experienced despite outward appearances. After prolonged self-research they discovered forums about breast implant illness, spoke with other women who reported symptom improvement after explant, and began to suspect their implants were causing their symptoms.
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I thought, this is supposed to be prime time 26. I was really good at hiding how I felt, hiding the weight, hiding my depression, my anxiety that started to arise, just hiding all of my emotions. I would slap on a smile and show my face on social media. And so I started seeing therapists. I started seeing psychiatrists. They just wanted to put me on mood stabilizers, antidepressants, and all these different things. And so as time went on, I just told myself, this is either how I'm going to live for the rest of my life. I'm just always going to be inflamed and sick and chronic fatigue. Some days I couldn't get out of bed. I found myself calling out of my corporate job, which I'm no longer in corporate, but I was calling out of my corporate job. And then it just started to become an issue that I was missing more work than going into work. I was just so sick. I had no energy to get myself up and going every day. I thought, this is supposed to be prime time 26. What's going on? So as I was reading more about breast implant illness, there was a time for two years that I isolated myself in my house and just did research every day because I was determined to figure out what was wrong with me. On the outside, everything looked perfect in my life, but inside, I. I felt like I was slowly dying. And I was only 28. And I said, I still want to have a family. This is not going to be my life forever. I'm six hours deep on the computer because I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with me. And. And so then I came across breast implant illness. I started speaking with a few different other women that I just started talking about breast implant illness. And they said, I've had symptoms too. I've had explant. Came across different women online, started talking with them too, about their experiences with their implants and how once they removed them, they felt so much better. And I thought to myself, no way can this be my implants causing all of these things. For so long, women online started talking with them too, about their experiences with their implants and how once they removed them, they felt so much better.
