Editor’s note: If you experience suicidal thoughts, the following post could be potentially triggering. You can contact the Crisis Text Line by texting “START” to 741741. Here’s a truth you don’t hear everyday: sometimes parents aren’t helpful. Or sometimes it takes some time to accept them as helpful. As teenagers, we have two contradicting feelings toward ...

On August 14, 2017, I was diagnosed with mild depression and severe anxiety by a doctor who had never met me before; a doctor who knew nothing about my experiences or about my feeling; a doctor spent just 15 minutes with me. When I first got my diagnoses I was thrilled! It was as though ...

If I were asked a year ago to describe how I deal with conflict in just three words I could have said, “maturely, fairly and calmly”. If asked the same question today I’d have to answer, “emotionally, dramatically, and irrationally”, or to sum it all up with two words, “I overreact”. Overreacting is responding more ...

Two years ago, I graduated from New York University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Individualized Study. I worked at a startup for a year, and when the company was bought out, I was unsure of what my next moves were. A few days later, I was on the couch talking with my roommate about her ...