My Drama - An Introduction
Like so many others, I suffer from depression. I am trying to learn how to accept that I have this mental illness and that it is not going to just be gone tomorrow when I wake up. This is where it started. I was a very tall youth, but very shy as well. This prompted a lot of bullying while I was in school. I had great parents and was pretty well adjusted, but the bullying did bother me. I was always afraid to fight back. Yes I did not like confrontation (and I still don't), but the main thing was that I really did not want to hurt anyone. I was most afraid of letting my anger get out of control. This all started early on in elementary school. By the time I got to grade 12 (my graduation year) I almost dropped out because I was just so tired of it all. I managed to stick it out and thankfully I made it through the rest of high school without any further trouble. I wish I could say the same for some of my other class mates. College was not too bad. I had mostly gotten my shyness u...