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She admitted at first she was ashamed to tell anyone for fear they might see her as \"weak.\"

But she eventually realized that \"denying my suffering and berating myself didn't help things\" and she needed to talk about it in order to fully deal with it.

Cabello sought help with cognitive behavioral therapy, meditation, breathing exercises and other techniques and wrote that she now feels the \"healthiest and most connected to myself I've ever been.\"

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