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I'm Alyssa. I'm 19 and I live in Ontario. 
I'm here because I find mental health fascinating.
I personally have not had any recent problems in mental health, but I used to be socially anxious. My doctor put me on Zoloft, and I have mixed feelings about my experience on it. I felt like it made me superficially happy. I felt awful on the inside, but I couldn't show it on the outside. Is this how all anti-depressant medications work? I was going through a bad time in my life in middle school and I felt like nothing was ever right with me. Hormones, body changes, life changes with my mom losing her job. I saw the school guidance councellor on a weekly basis so that she could tell me her life story and tell me to do my homework. I stopped taking the pills because I was sick of feeling so empty. Bad mistake. Then after one angry french class, I wrote that I would kill myself in my agenda. She took me into her office and told me what a special person I was. She didn't make anything better. I ended up changing schools a year later, and my whole life has been on track since. I chose a different high school than the one that all of my peers went to, and it paid off.
I really wish there were better counselors out there. I've been considering getting into teaching, anyway.
I'm here because I find mental health fascinating. I personally have not had any recent problems in mental health, but I used to be socially anxious. My doctor put me on Zoloft, and I have mixed feelings about my experience on it. I felt like it made me superficially happy. I felt awful on the inside, but I couldn't show it on the outside. Is this how all anti-depressant medications work? I was going through a bad time in my life in middle school and I felt like nothing was ever right with me. Hormones, body changes, life changes with my mom losing her job. I saw the school guidance councellor on a weekly basis so that she could tell me her life story and tell me to do my homework. I stopped taking the pills because I was sick of feeling so empty. Bad mistake. Then after one angry french class, I wrote that I would kill myself in my agenda. She took me into her office and told me what a special person I was. She didn't make anything better. I ended up changing schools a year later, and my whole life has been on track since. I chose a different high school than the one that all of my peers went to, and it paid off.
I really wish there were better counselors out there. I've been considering getting into teaching, anyway.
