Hey guys. Just thought I'd share something real quick. In high school, I suffered from horrible depression. I was suicidal. My family admitted me into an inpatient program to keep me from attempting suicide. I felt like everything and everyone around me was conspiring against me and my life was in ruins. I couldn't focus in school and I had to take a break. I lost so much weight and became severely sick. I couldn't even get out of bed at one point, not even to go to the bathroom and I accidentally wet my bed once. I know that's embarrassing but I just couldn't. I felt like that was it for me...death was the only option. My mom came into my room one day and she started crying and saying how if I died she couldn't live with herself and she might die too. She said in her little girl and her little angel and god sent me to her as her guardian. She said she knew it was hard for me but I had to give it my everything to get better and that I had so much going for me and so many people who love me with all their hearts. She was balling her eyes out and holding me and my dad was watching from the door and he was crying too. I saw my therapist regularly after that, I didn't have the feelings of "what's the point." That moment in the room gave me a little slither of hope. I was finally recovering a little bit by bit. I couldn't finish high school with my class, instead I got my GED. I stayed close to home and went to community college and then went on to get accepted with a full scholarship to a local college. I got my degree and I now work for a school district doing accounts. I met a lovely man in college and we got engaged and married short after. As I'm writing this, I can hear my husband and my two year old daughter laughing while they're finger painting in the living room. I have the life I have always wanted. I can't believe I've come this far. I guess my point here in this post is it will be hard. FIGHT IT. If you are going through a tough time fight it and you won't regret it. I could've easily ended everything but I wouldn't be able to call myself Anna's mommy today and I would've forgave the bright future that I had waiting for me. Sorry if this post was super long!