I was diagnosed with anxiety and clinical depression when I was 17 years old. I wasn’t put on medications until I was 27 years old.
My family didn’t understand what I was going through because no one in their family talks about mental illness.I don’t know if I’ve overcome this experience but I don’t let it get me down.
I’ve learned through talk therapy and from taking medications that there isn’t anything wrong with me. I am different and there isn’t anything wrong with that.
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