A Low Desire To Please

How a spoon full of "victim-blaming" helped the medicine go down.

As a woman, as a South Asian, and as a Brit, I have been raised with a three-fold pressure to people please, to submit, and to impress others with how much I’m willing to sacrifice at any cost to myself. It has been a life long journey to claw my way out of this disingenuous well of doom.

I think a huge part of what I thought was depression, in my twent…