Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC. Now my career goals are to somehow work in the mental health field, most likely as a therapist. I eventually want to pursue developing from a therapist working under someone to making larger change, either with my own organization to help mental health, or politically informing and lobbying for changes that improve mental health across the country. I am overall incredibly passionate about helping others mentally in any way my career takes me. Those are my goals. Slightly obscure, but the path is there, and my goals are bigger than ever.

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC.

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC. In short, this is what I love about myself. I love being able to turn a difficult situation, the most treacherous I have faced, into a positive. What a useful tool.

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC.

I have plentiful experience volunteering! From cleaning up the local park by myself, organized clean ups, or part of school events, the environment is a primary focus and secondary passion of mine. It is so beautiful and sad to see it being destroyed and I have loved doing my part in helping restore parts of it, despite the great amount left to be done. This work left to be done only motivates me more to volunteer and work towards reviving the dying environment our society has left on life support. During my junior year I was a proficient member of Warren's Students of Service volunteering club. We would have bi-weekly volunteer opportunities and sold Valentines day bears for charity, which I helped deliver, and organize. I have learned to respect volunteering in the most needy parts of the community and have gained a secondary passion for it from my times volunteering. Otherwise, when I am not volunteering I have worked two jobs. In the summer of 2019 I worked in local restaurant The Shanty and in the Summer of 2021 I worked at Whole Foods under Amazon. From both, I have learned incredible cooperation skills, the challenges all service workers go through, how the workforce in general works and how to navigate it, and how to effectively and conservatively manage my own finances. So much experience gained from these two jobs! In school, I was on the volleyball team for 2 years in middle school and served my 3rd in freshman year. I was also a runner in track and field in my junior year, but couldn't continue due to the delayed 2020-2021 season in my senior year. In my sophomore year, I took a hiatus from sports in order to participate in my Catholic churches youth group!

My career goals are to somehow work in the mental health field, most likely as a therapist. I eventually want to pursue developing from a therapist working under someone to making larger change, either with my own organization to help mental health, or politically informing and lobbying for changes that improve mental health across the country. I am overall incredibly passionate about helping others mentally in any way my career takes me. Those are my goals. Slightly obscure, but the path is there, and my goals are bigger than ever. A scholarship would be such an incredible weight off my shoulders. Not receiving one would mean an infinitely more difficult path forward. Doing a time consuming (10 hours a week) mental health outpatient program along with balancing school is costly and a tough challenge to even come close to mastering. Not getting financial relief would mean working and sacrificing time toward my mental rest and help which my outpatient program graciously assists me with. It would simply be too difficult to balance school, my mental health, and work, meaning one might have to be unfortunately sacrificed solely due to financial difficulties. Receiving a scholarship would be such a blessing for my family and for my goals in the future, and I would appreciate it unimaginably. I plan to dedicate all to my responsibilities to being the number one priority in my life. Although it’s true I have bitten off a lot to chew with college, mental health, and financially supporting my studies, I have made accommodations and reached out for help which will undoubtedly get me through these challenges thievingly. For my mental health I have taken full account for myself and work as hard as I can daily to improve, from psychiatrist appointments to an intense outpatient program, to weekly therapy appointments, I have taken as many precautions as possible to succeed. And it’s been paying off! With school, I made sure to transfer my AP scores to CLC as soon as I could and I dropped to bring a 3/4th of full time student in order to be able to balance the intensive outpatient program with my work. I am very excited to start my classes soon! As for my financial struggles, I am doing this. If I do not receive a scholarship from the many places I am applying to, I will immediately look into the best part time job I can find to accommodate my needs and apply as a backup! I am trying my absolute hardest to balance my school and personal life and setting up several safety nets, being proactive, and allowing myself room to relax and grow, along with working on myself! Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college.

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC.Now my career goals are to somehow work in the mental health field, most likely as a therapist. I eventually want to pursue developing from a therapist working under someone to making larger change, either with my own organization to help mental health, or politically informing and lobbying for changes that improve mental health across the country. I am overall incredibly passionate about helping others mentally in any way my career takes me. Those are my goals. Slightly obscure, but the path is there, and my goals are bigger than ever.

Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC. So now, My career goals are to somehow work in the mental health field, most likely as a therapist. I eventually want to pursue developing from a therapist working under someone to making larger change, either with my own organization to help mental health, or politically informing and lobbying for changes that improve mental health across the country. I am overall incredibly passionate about helping others mentally in any way my career takes me. Those are my goals. Slightly obscure, but the path is there, and my goals are bigger than ever.

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC. Now, my career goals are to somehow work in the mental health field, most likely as a therapist. I eventually want to pursue developing from a therapist working under someone to making larger change, either with my own organization to help mental health, or politically informing and lobbying for changes that improve mental health across the country. I am overall incredibly passionate about helping others mentally in any way my career takes me. Those are my goals. Slightly obscure, but the path is there, and my goals are bigger than ever.

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC.

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC.

A scholarship would be such an incredible weight off my shoulders. Not receiving one would mean an infinitely more difficult path forward. Doing a time consuming (10 hours a week) mental health outpatient program along with balancing school is costly and a tough challenge to even come close to mastering. Not getting financial relief would mean working and sacrificing time toward my mental rest and help which my outpatient program graciously assists me with. It would simply be too difficult to balance school, my mental health, and work, meaning one might have to be unfortunately sacrificed solely due to financial difficulties. Receiving a scholarship would be such a blessing for my family and for my goals in the future, and I would appreciate it unimaginably.

I have various and plentiful experience volunteering in many ways. From cleaning up the local park by myself, in organized clean ups, or part of school events, the environment is a primary focus and secondary passion of mine. It is so beautiful and sad to see it being destroyed and I have loved doing my part in helping restore parts of it, despite the great amount left to be done. This work left to be done only motivates me more to volunteer and work towards reviving the dying environment our society has left on life support. During my junior year I was a proficient member of Warren's Students of Service volunteering club. We would have bi-weekly volunteer opportunities and sold Valentines day bears for charity, which I helped deliver, and organize. Unfortunately, my involvement in the club was slightly stunted due to elearning in my 2020 school year due to Covid, but I still had good times there. I have learned to respect volunteering in the most needy parts of the community and have gained a secondary passion for it from my times volunteering. Otherwise, when I am not volunteering I have worked two jobs. In the summer of 2019 I worked in local restaurant The Shanty and in the Summer of 2021 I worked at Whole Foods under Amazon. From both, I have learned incredible cooperation skills, the challenges all service workers go through, how the workforce in general works and how to navigate it, and how to effectively and conservatively manage my own finances. So much experience gained from these two jobs! In school, I was on the volleyball team for 2 years in middle school and served my 3rd in freshman year. I was also a runner in track and field in my junior year, but couldn't continue due to the delayed 2020-2021 season in my senior year. In my sophomore year, I took a hiatus from sports in order to participate in my Catholic churches youth group! From both participation in teams and as part of a religious and closely knitted group, I learned to bond with community members with similar and various interests and traits than me. I also took part in so many more community activities such as training for months to be part of my best friends Quinceanera court, dancing in the close friend's Filipina debut, playing local volleyball, and much more!

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. I believe so heavily that mental health needs to be taught in schools in order to help people understand what to do with their emotions, since many families teach children emotional intelligence inadequately. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC.

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC.

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC. Now my career goals are to somehow work in the mental health field, most likely as a therapist. I eventually want to pursue developing from a therapist working under someone to making larger change, either with my own organization to help mental health, or politically informing and lobbying for changes that improve mental health across the country. I am overall incredibly passionate about helping others mentally in any way my career takes me. Those are my goals. Slightly obscure, but the path is there, and my goals are bigger than ever.

I have various and plentiful experience volunteering in many ways. From cleaning up the local park by myself, in organized clean ups, or part of school events, the environment is a primary focus and secondary passion of mine. It is so beautiful and sad to see it being destroyed and I have loved doing my part in helping restore parts of it, despite the great amount left to be done. This work left to be done only motivates me more to volunteer and work towards reviving the dying environment our society has left on life support. During my junior year I was a proficient member of Warren's Students of Service volunteering club. We would have bi-weekly volunteer opportunities and sold Valentines day bears for charity, which I helped deliver, and organize. Unfortunately, my involvement in the club was slightly stunted due to elearning in my 2020 school year due to Covid, but I still had good times there. I have learned to respect volunteering in the most needy parts of the community and have gained a secondary passion for it from my times volunteering. Otherwise, when I am not volunteering I have worked two jobs. In the summer of 2019 I worked in local restaurant The Shanty and in the Summer of 2021 I worked at Whole Foods under Amazon. From both, I have learned incredible cooperation skills, the challenges all service workers go through, how the workforce in general works and how to navigate it, and how to effectively and conservatively manage my own finances. So much experience gained from these two jobs! In school, I was on the volleyball team for 2 years in middle school and served my 3rd in freshman year. I was also a runner in track and field in my junior year, but couldn't continue due to the delayed 2020-2021 season in my senior year. In my sophomore year, I took a hiatus from sports in order to participate in my Catholic churches youth group! From both participation in teams and as part of a religious and closely knitted group, I learned to bond with community members with similar and various interests and traits than me. I also took part in so many more community activities such as training for months to be part of my best friends Quinceanera court, dancing in the close friend's Filipina debut, playing local volleyball, and much more!

I have various and plentiful experience volunteering in many ways. From cleaning up the local park by myself, in organized clean ups, or part of school events, the environment is a primary focus and secondary passion of mine. It is so beautiful and sad to see it being destroyed and I have loved doing my part in helping restore parts of it, despite the great amount left to be done. This work left to be done only motivates me more to volunteer and work towards reviving the dying environment our society has left on life support. During my junior year I was a proficient member of Warren's Students of Service volunteering club. We would have bi-weekly volunteer opportunities and sold Valentines day bears for charity, which I helped deliver, and organize. Unfortunately, my involvement in the club was slightly stunted due to elearning in my 2020 school year due to Covid.

I have various and plentiful experience volunteering in many ways. From cleaning up the local park by myself, in organized clean ups, or part of school events, the environment is a primary focus and secondary passion of mine. It is so beautiful and sad to see it being destroyed and I have loved doing my part in helping restore parts of it, despite the great amount left to be done. This work left to be done only motivates me more to volunteer and work towards reviving the dying environment our society has left on life support. During my junior year I was a proficient member of Warren's Students of Service volunteering club. We would have bi-weekly volunteer opportunities and sold Valentines day bears for charity, which I helped deliver, and organize. I have learned to respect volunteering in the most needy parts of the community and have gained a secondary passion for it from my times volunteering. Otherwise, when I am not volunteering I have worked two jobs. In the summer of 2019 I worked in local restaurant The Shanty and in the Summer of 2021 I worked at Whole Foods under Amazon. From both, I have learned incredible cooperation skills, the challenges all service workers go through, how the workforce in general works and how to navigate it, and how to effectively and conservatively manage my own finances. So much experience gained from these two jobs! In my sophomore year, I took a hiatus from sports in order to participate in my Catholic churches youth group! From participation in as part of a religious, closely knitted group, I learned to bond with community members with similar and various interests and traits than me.

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. My career goals are to somehow work in the mental health field, most likely as a therapist. I eventually want to pursue developing from a therapist working under someone to making larger change, either with my own organization to help mental health, or politically informing and lobbying for changes that improve mental health across the country. I am overall incredibly passionate about helping others mentally in any way my career takes me. Those are my goals. Slightly obscure, but the path is there, and my goals are bigger than ever.

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college at CLC. My career goals are to somehow work in the mental health field, most likely as a therapist. I eventually want to pursue developing from a therapist working under someone to making larger change, either with my own organization to help mental health, or politically informing and lobbying for changes that improve mental health across the country. I am overall incredibly passionate about helping others mentally in any way my career takes me. Those are my goals. Slightly obscure, but the path is there, and my goals are bigger than ever.

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Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. The pandemic took a massive toll on me. Elearning was a new massive challenge to adapt to, it was very difficult to see those I loved, and I was inside all day repeating the same actions over and over. I began to develop severe clinical depression over the last year and a half, and I dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. Within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college.

I plan to dedicate all to my responsibilities to being the number one priority in my life. Although it’s true I have bitten off a lot to chew with college, mental health, and financially supporting my studies, I have made accommodations and reached out for help which will undoubtedly get me through these challenges thievingly. For my mental health I have taken full account for myself and work as hard as I can daily to improve, from psychiatrist appointments to an intense outpatient program, to weekly therapy appointments, I have taken as many precautions as possible to succeed. And it’s been paying off! With school, I made sure to transfer my AP scores to college of Lake County as soon as I could and I dropped to bring a 3/4th of full time student in order to be able to balance the intensive outpatient program with my work. I am very excited to start my classes soon! As for my financial struggles, I am doing this. If I do not receive a scholarship from the many places I am applying to, I will immediately look into the best part time job I can find to accommodate my needs and apply as a backup! I am trying my absolute hardest to balance my school and personal life and setting up several safety nets, being proactive, and allowing myself room to relax and grow, along with working on myself!

Everyone has overheard the cliche that there is good in every bad, everything happens for a reason, yin and yang. Unfortunately there will be no lack of corniness In this essay response because I definitely have experienced learning this myself. Having developed severe clinical depression over the last two years, I have dove into the world of mental health treatment, the likes of which I had absolutely no experience with before. But within all the darkness I was clouded in, I found one great shining light I will take with me forever… my passion for mental health. It has been in many ways a blessing, the biggest of which has been finding my purpose in the world which is to help eliminate others' mental anguish and work in the mental health field. I am more motivated than no other to help as many as I can and study as well as I can to be the best therapist I can be. It has been so difficult, but as I get better and better, with my recovery comes increased mental understanding and space to exert more mental energy for my goals. Throughout this great shadow that has fallen upon my world, I have graduated with a 4.25+ GPA and navigated my way towards the edges of the shadow. I have become so much stronger from getting through it and taken so much out of it to help me with the next step of my life: college.