I’ve had depression and anxiety what seems like my whole life. (not that I’ve lived a whole lot). When I was 8, I was put on medication and did some therapy and it worked for a year then I was weaned off of it and I could survive.
Over the years, both my anxiety and depression continued to rise until I was put back on the medication and when that didn’t work I was tried on a lot of other antidepressants.
Two months before my 16th birthday, after 6 months of pills, all my hair fell out. I’m lucky that didn’t break me more than it did, because that was really shocking to me and the people around me.
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