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I Survived Depression - My Journey Back To A Happy Life
I Survived Depression - My Journey Back To A Happy Life
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I was born in India and I was pretty much born up and raised there for most of my life.
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So when I was very young, I was moving from one part of the city to the other, so my dad
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had to move me to this big private school.
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So, when I moved to that school, I was often bullied
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because I had severe weight issues when I was little.
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And it was really hard for me to fit in but that didn't matter because I still had my
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dad with me.
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He was like my best friend, he often took me to bookstores on the weekends and we’d
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read. Basically sitting with him and just reading was some of the best memories that I ever
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had with my father.
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But unfortunately this didn't last long, when I was in the fourth grade my dad passed away.
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And that was the worst moment in my entire life.
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That day was when everything came crashing down.
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Not only did I lose a father but I lost a best friend as well.
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After my dad passed away, I didn't know how to go on with life I was just so little and
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I didn't understand anything. My family was getting so upset.
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We started having financial issues.
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It was the worst thing that has ever happened to me and that was kind of why my depression started.
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I really didn't see the point to living anymore and the years went on after my dad’s death
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and my depression started to get worse and my self-worth started to go really low.
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I often had suicidal thoughts and there are moments when I just couldn't take it anymore.
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My mom remarried to this really horrible man. He would often verbally and emotionally abuse me.
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That further contributed to my issues with depression and anxiety, and to make things
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worse, I hit puberty.
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I was really vulnerable and I started hanging out with the wrong people and I started getting into really bad things
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like drugs and my life just couldn't go on anymore.
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One day I just decided to just finally just kill myself.
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I didn't want to face life anymore but I had this fantasy of what would it be like if things
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were different.
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I kind of had like these fantasies of having friends and having a life that wasn’t really shadowed
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with depression and other issues and stuff.
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I often have this thought in my mind- What if my life were different?
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What if I was given a chance to restart my life?
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What if I was given the chance to kind of go to a place where nobody would know me?
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And I would live my life the way I want to. Those thoughts kind of just kept me through
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the night. When I went to school,
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I saw these posters for the study abroad program, which I gladly took on.
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Now, I live in Boston and coming here was the best decision that I’ve ever made.
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Now, I've actually gotten the chance to restart my life.
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Depression is still a major part of my life but I’ve come to a point where it’s not
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as significant anymore.
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I still do struggle with it, but now its come to point where I can control it and I have friends
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and I’m surrounded by people who love me and give me positive thoughts.
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And I’m finally doing something that I love with my life.
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I’m in college, my grades are good, and like I finally saw the light to the end of my tunnel.
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Now, its like I’ve been given a chance to relive my life and if so thankful for that.
