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Almost certainly. I never properly addressed emotional issues I had as a teenager that probably originated years before. That caused me to nearly drop out of college my freshman year. I then moved out and basically went into survival mode for the next four years. Very nearly had a breakdown my final semester. Got to the point that I couldn't sleep at night without medicine (all over the counter and legal, but habit-forming nonetheless) and I had horrible tremors while I was awake. Graduated with high honors in a difficult major. Couldn't find a job for nearly seven years after that. Spent that entire time being manipulated by a selfish shrew who blamed me for all of her problems. Really should have gone to therapy at some point in those seven years, but I couldn't afford it and was terrified that it would be yanked away if I asked someone else to pay for it. Almost lost my apartment and all of my belongings. Had my heart absolutely shattered, stopped eating anything but iced coffee for two months, and lost about thirty pounds. I'm extraordinarily lonely and not just in the romantic sense. A lot of my friends turned their backs on me when I opened up about the situation I had been in. One even went on a rant about how I was just lazy and spoiled during a period in my life where I felt like such a burden that I had very concrete plans.

I'm doing better now though. I have a job that's enough to pay my expenses. I'm going to therapy every two weeks. I've got my cats. Nearly thirty years old and still dealing with something that probably started before my age was even in double digits. It doesn't just go away.