Attending school is never easy, especially high school, but add mental health struggles on top of that and you're asking for burnout and breakdowns. Maintaining a positive mental health mindset while going through school is crucial to being able to succeed academically, and mentally, seeing as how mental state effects concentration, motivation, relationships, and success. Trying to focus on your academics dealing with issues such as anxiety, depression, and overwhelming stress is almost impossible. These issues make it hard to sleep at night, lowering your brains alertness and responsiveness when you need it the most, in class, not to mention depression can take away any motivation someone might have to succeed or try in their academic life which leads to unfinished assignments, failed tests, and low grades. Anxiety can hold someone back from asking for help they might need, leaving students to suffer in confusion in silence. These mental health issues create a vicious cycle of repetitive stress, which leads to anxiety, which leads to depression continuing over and over again over something as small as notes for English class. Not only can mental health destroy your academic career but it can also gets brought home and ruins your relationships. Allowing the negative thoughts fill your brain, that because I got a low grade on this test I am useless, I am undeserving, I am a failure, you begin to isolate. You begin to believe that the world would be better without you around because you can't do something as simple as get an A on your Anatomy test. If I can't get an A in my classes then I'm not smart enough for people to want to be around. I am too stupid. These mental illnesses twist and warp your thoughts and create this false reality in your head, making you want to just stay home locked away from anyone and everyone, because honestly who would want to be around someone with a B in Anatomy and Physiology? These warped thoughts destroy relationships of all sorts, and destroy your self esteem at the same time. In order to make my mental health a priority, as to not destroy my academic career, the relationships I have built, and my self esteem I began therapy. Two years ago at the lowest my mental health has ever been I made the decision to start therapy and try to better myself. To silence the overwhelming amount of warped thoughts running through my head. Once a week, sitting down and letting those thoughts out, allowing for more realistic thoughts to fill my mind. I might've not done my best on this test, but what study technique can I use to do better on the next one? I didn't do so well on this Anatomy test, but I KILLED that Stats test. My grades do not determine who I am as a person. My grades do not reflect my character. I am not a bad person because I did bad on an assignment. Starting therapy and allowing these warped, twisted thoughts to be dismantled and straightened back out has allowed me to be more successful not only mentally but academically, strengthening my grades and reducing the burnout every person in school is facing.

Attending school is never easy, especially high school, but add mental health struggles on top of that and you're asking for burnout and breakdowns. Maintaining a positive mental health mindset while going through school is crucial to being able to succeed academically, and mentally, seeing as how mental state effects concentration, motivation, relationships, and success. Trying to focus on your academics dealing with issues such as anxiety, depression, and overwhelming stress is almost impossible. These issues make it hard to sleep at night, lowering your brains alertness and responsiveness when you need it the most, in class, not to mention depression can take away any motivation someone might have to succeed or try in their academic life which leads to unfinished assignments, failed tests, and low grades. Anxiety can hold someone back from asking for help they might need, leaving students to suffer in confusion in silence. These mental health issues create a vicious cycle of repetitive stress, which leads to anxiety, which leads to depression continuing over and over again over something as small as notes for English class. Not only can mental health destroy your academic career but it can also gets brought home and ruins your relationships. Allowing the negative thoughts fill your brain, that because I got a low grade on this test I am useless, I am undeserving, I am a failure, you begin to isolate. You begin to believe that the world would be better without you around because you can't do something as simple as get an A on your Anatomy test. If I can't get an A in my classes then I'm not smart enough for people to want to be around. I am too stupid. These mental illnesses twist and warp your thoughts and create this false reality in your head, making you want to just stay home locked away from anyone and everyone, because honestly who would want to be around someone with a B in Anatomy and Physiology? These warped thoughts destroy relationships of all sorts, and destroy your self esteem at the same time. In order to make my mental health a priority, as to not destroy my academic career, the relationships I have built, and my self esteem I began therapy. Two years ago at the lowest my mental health has ever been I made the decision to start therapy and try to better myself. To silence the overwhelming amount of warped thoughts running through my head. Once a week, sitting down and letting those thoughts out, allowing for more realistic thoughts to fill my mind. I might've not done my best on this test, but what study technique can I use to do better on the next one? I didn't do so well on this Anatomy test, but I KILLED that Stats test. My grades do not determine who I am as a person. My grades do not reflect my character. I am not a bad person because I did bad on an assignment. Starting therapy and allowing these warped, twisted thoughts to be dismantled and straightened back out has allowed me to be more successful not only mentally but academically, strengthening my grades and reducing the burnout every person in school is facing.

“My God, love is embarrassing as hell” Love is embarrassing. Your friends are embarrassing. Your family is embarrassing. Your clothes are embarrassing. Your grades are embarrassing. Your hair and makeup is embarrassing. Your weight is embarrassing. Your shoes are embarrassing. Your passions are embarrassing. Your body is embarrassing. Your personality is embarrassing. Your laugh is embarrassing. Everything and every moment about being a girl, everything and every moment about being a teenager, everything and every moment about being in high school is embarrassing. The thing about being a teenager is that no matter what you love, who you love, who you are, you’re gonna be embarrassed. Some thing is going to embarrass you. There will always be apart of you you’re ashamed of. You could be the coolest or the prettiest girl in all of your school, yet something you love is going to be embarrassing to you. I don't know at what point in life people began to hide the parts of them they loved. At what point people began feeling embarrassed, simply over slight differences in themselves, anything that creates individuality in someone is now something that deserves to be covered up. But at some point across time, teen girls decided to take there adolescence and fill it with this disgust for themselves, that they need to take out on all of those around them, destroying the confidence of everyone in their path. I think one of the things Olivia Rodrigo perfectly encapsulates in all of her music is teenage angst, something that all of us teen girls can relate to at least a little bit, the never ending dread and hell you go through trying to fit in and trying to be loved. Love is embarrassing as hell, but I don't think this is just as the people you love, or the goofy boys all us teen girls fall in love with. I think everything we love is embarrassing. I love to read, I love to spend time with my family, I like to stay in rather than go out. All these things that I love so much, yet if you asked some of my closest friends they couldn't tell you those things about me, the things I love are embarrassing as hell. Olivia Rodrigo is someone who went through the catastrophic years that was adolescence, and through her music she continues to sing about the issues and heartache that come with being a teenage girl. Not even being able to love the things you love, because even so little as love, is embarrassing as hell.

Since I was 14, a freshman in high school I've had my entire life planned. I’ve known the school I want to go to, the degree I want, the career I want, who I want to be. For years I have had a plan, for years I have worked hard to be able to achieve my goals, for years I have done everything I can to keep on the path straight to success. But now I am a senior, all of the things I have been prepping for and hoping for years come into play now, will I get into the dream college, will I get the scholarships, will I remain in the top of my class, will I have the picture perfect senior year. I am a planner to every last detail, and now I have begun the waiting game, waiting for my future to begin. I have always wanted to be a teacher. My aunt is a teacher, and my whole life I got to hear stories upon stories about all the adorable little kids she gets to work with, the growth they’ve made over the school year, and the challenges public teachers face daily. But regardless of the challenges she talked about the smile on her face, the amount of joy she carried when talking about her students stuck with me. I want that kind of joy, I want to be able to make that kind of difference in childrens lifes. As I have gotten older I have been immersing myself more in childcare and being able to surround myself with kids, and help teach them. Starting with babysitting, then volunteering at church with Sunday School, and this summer doing a 2 week long internship teaching Kindergarten at Summer School. I have been able to see firsthand the challenges presented with working with young kids. It is hard, it is tiring, it is loud, it is overwhelming, but more than that, it is fun to do the activities, it is entertaining to watch the kids play, it is rewarding to watch the kids faces when the concept clicks in their heads, it is greater than any difficulties that presents itself. I want to be able to be there at the start of these kids education, and help them learn the basics. Kindergarten is the foundation of education, all learning starts there. Being able to be a part of the beginning of students learning experience, and creating a positive learning environment, and create positive relationships with education for new students is what I want to be able to do, just like my kindergarten teacher did for me. Setting the foundation for success in others early.

Attending school is never easy, especially high school, but add mental health struggles on top of that and you're asking for burnout and breakdowns. Maintaining a positive mental health mindset while going through school is crucial to being able to succeed academically, and mentally, seeing as how mental state effects concentration, motivation, relationships, and success. Trying to focus on your academics dealing with issues such as anxiety, depression, and overwhelming stress is almost impossible. These issues make it hard to sleep at night, lowering your brains alertness and responsiveness when you need it the most, in class, not to mention depression can take away any motivation someone might have to succeed or try in their academic life which leads to unfinished assignments, failed tests, and low grades. Anxiety can hold someone back from asking for help they might need, leaving students to suffer in confusion in silence. These mental health issues create a vicious cycle of repetitive stress, which leads to anxiety, which leads to depression continuing over and over again over something as small as notes for engish class. Not only can mental health destroy your academic career but it can also gets brought home and ruins your relationships. Allowing the negative thoughts fill your brain, that because I got a low grade on this test I am useless, I am undeserving, I am a failure, you begin to isolate. You begin to believe that the world would be better without you around because you can't do something as simple as get an A on your Anatomy test. If I can't get an A in my classes then I'm not smart enough for people to want to be around. I am too stupid. These mental illnesses twist and warp your thoughts and create this false reality in your head, making you want to just stay home locked away from anyone and everyone, because honestly who would want to be around someone with a B in Anatomy and Physiology? These warped thoughts destroy relationships of all sorts, and destroy your self esteem at the same time. In order to make my mental health a priority, as to not destroy my academic career, the relationships I have built, and my self esteem I began therapy. Two years ago at the lowest my mental health has ever been I made the decision to start therapy and try to better myself. To silence the overwhelming amount of warped thoughts running through my head. Once a week, sitting down and letting those thoughts out, allowing for more realistic thoughts to fill my mind. I mightve not done my best on this test, but what study technique can I use to do better on the next one? I didn't do so well on this Anatomy test, but I KILLED that Stats test. My grades do not determine who I am as a person. My grades do not reflect my character. I am not a bad person because I did bad on an assignment. Starting therapy and allowing these warped, twisted thoughts to be dismantled and straightened back out has allowed me to be more succesful not only mentally but academically, strengthening my grades and reducing the burnout every person in school is facing.