Being a teenager isn’t easy; it’s the trickiest part in your life. It’s the time where you have to make the most important decisions of your life, for some it would be about their careers or their university applications but for me it was battling depression and mental health disorders.
Depression is the slowest form of suicide, it slowly kills you from the inside and the worst part about it is that nobody notices because you cover it with a fake smile. That’s what took over, took over my small frame. I was only eleven when it started and that’s the same time I was diagnosed with Insomnia. …show more content…
To channel bottled up aggression, I have found an outlet in writing. Besides writing sports became my comfort zone, I would wake up early in the mornings and go for Basketball practices thrice a week and netball practices twice a week, on the weekends I would go for a two-three hour swim or would practice running for athletics on a national level. Sports helped me re-energize and kept me focused on what was important, it was an easy outlet for anxiety. If you spend less time whining or complaining about the small things that make you unhappy and more time praising the things that make you smile, you will think more positive thoughts and that really worked for me. I proved everyone wrong, I won medals at national level not only for sports but for other competitions such as science and business. In order to fight my depression I took the biggest step of improving my image towards other, starting off with myself and then towards others. I had to be honest to myself, I changed my social circle , eating healthy and doing anything that would satisfy