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Last year, I wrote a blog for  R U OK day   , about how a little hug could go along way. This initiative aims to raise awareness for suicide prevention by starting life-changing conversations with three simple words, four letters "R U OK?" Some wounds are really obvious, bright red bleeding things that you can spot from a mile away. Some pain you can hear, so loud and so soul shattering that you would not deny them their suffering. But there’s some sort of hidden trauma, some injury, some suffering that is misunderstood as just minor, "you'll get over it." It stands as tall as the highest, most insurmountable mountain to anyone in it's path. It twists your insides and wracks your mind without ever showing its face. It’s that nightmare you have where you open your mouth but you can’t scream, where you’re trying to run away but your muscles are frozen, where you think for just the shortest and eternal moment, wouldn’t it just be easier to quit? It’s those...