I haven't posted for a while due mainly to my state of mind atm, so I thought it would be a good thing to do one of these lovely blog homework and share it with the community.
This one is a tough one. Like many people, my teenager years were some of the worst years of my life. It wasn't just me being a teenager, but me being a teenager and trying to survive with mental health issues - and a complete lack of support from those who should have been there.
So if there were a few things I'd told myself, here what they would be:
1/ You're beautiful. How you feel about yourself now is still going to be the same way you feel in ten years. But looking back, you'll realise that you lost a lot of time and youth instead of embracing who you are.
2/ You are not a monster. People suffering with mental health issues are widely unsupported and not well understood. And often judged. It's okay not to be okay. It's not your fault and don't listen to them. You'll never be the daughter they wanted anyway.
3/ There is nothing you could have done. I lost people who were very dear to me and being on my own as a teenager was really tough. I constantly blamed myself for no reason.
4/ You need to let her go. If people don't want to stick around, don't try to make them stay. It won't work and it will just hurt. No matter how much you love her... You need to set her free.
5/ Keep writing. Writing as always been a massive part of my life and the one dream I want to achieve someday is to publish a book. I wrote quite a lot being a teenager, but soon after I crossed the line between my teenager years and my adult years, I lost it all. For years, I didn't write anything, scared of being a failure, of not being good enough. I should have trusted myself more on this.
As always with tough topics, it got serious very quickly... Hope you don't mind!
What advice would you give to you younger self?
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