I felt like I was in prison. I was urged to write something heavy and dark but I’m trying to not do so here to make this helpful for some of the people reading this post. I need to write this for myself and as a determination to move on to…

This semester I had made some progress in my life. And I felt my efforts started paying off. I wanted to challenge stuff I wanted to do but hadn't, so I joined the choir. I always wanted to feel connected to a big team to do something big …

I had been studying for exams, grades, contests, awards. I was sick of them. I had always blamed myself, "I am not enough." I knew this didn't work when I burned out and thought everything in my life was ruined. I completely lost the meani…