Is Your Toxic Relationship Making You Sick?

Almost Adulting with Violet Benson

Violet Benson

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🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Listen bestie, you know that tight feeling in your chest, the unexplained fatigue, the random headaches and sleepless nights? That’s your body screaming: this relationship is toxic!! RUN. (We're talking, romantic, platonic, or family—no one gets a free pass.)

Today, Violetta reveals the science-backed truth about how emotional stress from toxic relationships physically destroys your health—think cortisol chaos, immune system crashes, and gut meltdowns. If you have ADHD, trauma, or an anxious attachment style, congrats—you’re 10x more sensitive to this damage.

Tune in for:

The chilling Bluebeard story about ignoring your gut instincts (never again, babe!).
A powerful checklist to instantly spot red flags.
Clear, science-backed insights into exactly what's happening in your body.
A no-BS, 3-step call to action to reclaim your life ASAP.

Because here's the deal:

You can’t heal in the same environment that made you sick.

So today, we're choosing YOU.

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0:00.0	You ever get out of a toxic relationship and suddenly people are stopping you in the street to tell you how much you're glowing. I mean, your skin is clearing up. Your anxiety gone. Social anxiety is now anxious of you. Yeah. Guess what? That's not a coincidence. That is your body screaming. Thank God that we dumped him. I won't see. Did someone so toxic for me that my body tried to break up with me
0:21.9	before I had the courage to break up with him? I'm talking about my period disappeared. My cortisol
0:27.1	levels off the charts. My skin was a war zone. I started getting acne on my chest on my back.
0:32.7	My hair started to thin. I was exhausted. But the one thing they gave it away that I should have realized
0:39.4	was the fact that my vagina pH balance was so off. I had a different scent. I was getting
0:45.7	UTIs nonstop. I was getting bacterial vaginitis osis or whatever it's called, the inflammation
0:51.4	after every time I had sex with him, because that was
0:54.8	literally my body rejecting his dick and the person attached to it. I mean, has that ever happened to
1:00.8	you guys when your full-on vagina odor changes? Your pH balance becomes imbalanced when you're
1:06.9	dating someone and you can't figure out what it is. It's the person. The person in front of you, that's it.
1:11.8	Oh, and by the way, guys, if you have ADHD, trauma, anxious attachment style, congrats.
1:16.6	You are now 10 times more sensitive to this kind of dysregulation.
1:20.4	So this affects you even more.
1:22.5	It's Viola Benson, your favorite meme queen and the big sit you didn't ask for, but see.
1:30.5	Welcome to almost adulting almost adulting are you ready? Hi everyone and welcome back to almost adulting largest self-hop pockets
1:40.0	and movement. I am your Russian big sister giving you that tough love you may not want to hear but best believe you're going to need. Did I always say my name? Maybe I didn't. I am your Russian big sister, giving you that tough love you may not want to hear
1:44.7	but best believe you're going to need. Did I always say my name? Maybe I didn't. I'm your host and your
1:49.1	bestie, your tiny adult going through this journey of life with you. Violeta, where you call me,
1:55.0	Violetta. And today we are talking about how being around toxic people, and I'm talking romantic,
2:00.5	platonic, or family, whoever,
2:03.1	isn't just bad for your mood, just bad for your vibe, just bad for your Instagram aesthetic,
2:09.1	but it's literally bad for your health. Toxic relationships will ruin your life,
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