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TH“You’re a nurse. This is what you signed up for.”
They said it when a patient grabbed your throat.
They said it when you cried in the supply closet because you couldn’t feel your legs.
They said it when you told them you weren’t okay and they handed you an EAP number and sent you back to the floor.
They say it until you believe it.
Until you stop reporting the assaults because nothing changes.
Until you convince yourself the chest pain is just stress and the hair falling out is normal.
So you stay.
You stay until a patient breaks your ribs and you flinch every time someone moves too fast for the rest of your life.
You stay until your body forces you out with seizures, autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue.
You stay until you’re in your car before a shift thinking maybe it would be easier if you weren’t alive anymore.
They know this is happening.
They’ve always known.
And they keep saying it — because that phrase makes YOU the problem.
It keeps you quiet.
It keeps you there until you break.
And when you break, they replace you.
That’s the model.
I was in that hospital bed. I believed every word. I almost died believing that lie.
You didn’t sign up for this.
You signed up to help people.
They turned that against you.
The most powerful thing you can do now is leave.
Get healthy. Choose yourself.
There’s another side.
I’m standing on it.
And there’s room for you here.
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