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The Cost of Carrying Everyone: What the Strong Black Woman Schema Does to a Body
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The Cost of Carrying Everyone: What the Strong Black Woman Schema Does to a Body

She's the dependable one. The one who remembers everyone's birthdays and doctor’s appointments. She works all day, checks on her parents, helps her children with homework, comforts her friends, and somehow still manages to smile when people ask how she's doing. People admire her. Little do they know she's also the woman who is quietly unraveling.

Sound familiar?

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