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Byron Katie woke up on the floor with zero memory of herself

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Waking up on the floor is generally a bad sign, but for Katie, it was the start of a whole new universe. After suffering from extreme depression and rage, she supposedly woke up in a halfway house with her entire psychological identity completely erased. She suddenly found all human suffering absolutely hilarious because she literally could not believe her own stressful thoughts anymore.

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