Mental health isn’t an easy topic to talk about. We people have all struggled once before from our thoughts. I’ve recently turned 16 years old and I struggled with my mental health at the early age of 6. At a young age I was brought upon the struggles my parents had with no outlet to help me cope with my self I developed heavy stress and anxiety. That resulted in issues with urine control, nail biting, speech loss, and socialism bringing a worrisome mother. As years went by my self view began to become worse. I self harmed, developed an eating disorder, and had a fascination of wanting to be perfect. It became too bad I was taken to therapy during covid time where i communicated through the phone. I believed therapy would just fix everything but it didn’t. Therapy did help me a lot I was able to form a stronger bond with my mother but it didn’t solve everything. As i thought I was just “fixed” I was slowly going back to where I had started. I became bad again all I could think when watching my peers is why couldn’t I be them? My ignorance brought me down because although money is important to life it truly doesn’t bring you happiness. Slowly my days were consumed of my thoughts, the pressure of having to be perfect, get a good job become rich, be healthy, fit, pretty, respectful, etc. It had become where I found my days being repetitive where there was no end to it. Until I became aware of the same symptoms I had my mom was having them too. Upon noticing all what my mother was experiencing I knew I had to change. I couldn’t expect her to just become better if I couldn’t help myself either. I knew it wasn’t going to be easy but I had to keep trying. It isn’t an easy road and can take more than months even years to become better. The thoughts never leave as I am still struggling with them some days. It seems as if there’s days where I want everything in life to then have everything crushing down on me. I don’t want that for myself or anyone else that’s why I searched, I knew that to just forget about the thoughts was no easy task but it’s better to come in terms with them and find alternatives outcomes to express our feelings. Knowing the struggle it is to deal with depression and the point where you think the only solution is to end your life I want to help let it be known that there’s more to life than the issues were blinded with. A relationship between two people is not to fix each other but rather be there to uplift one another. Many believe that just by loving someone will help the other just love themselves but it’s not so easy. Mental illness causes one to believe they’re not capable of love. That is why I am working towards working in either therapy, counseling, or nursery. A way to talk with people and inform them that they have so much to life. Each individual brings different things to those around and there’s no need to cut life short. Mental health is important and it should be more informed to others. So that way everyone can know that help is there and they are not alone in this world.