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Tuesday November 03, 2009

For every teenager with depression...

I just looked back on my poems
and as, partly, ashamed as I am of the way I was back then,
I'm proud of myself for coming such a long way,
pushing ahead through the misdirected emotion
and long nights of wishing I was dead for some unknown reason.

I’m less critical about the person that I am today
and I understand now
that I had to deal with immense depression
at such a young age and somehow
projection was my way
not meaning all of the stupid, exaggerated things I'd say,
emotionally tearing my way through every day
without the maturity to understand
the problem was not with what I would write about,
but at my core,
but I was lonely, naive and extremely unsure.

Maturing was a process,
turning me from my raw form
with intense emotions and misunderstood complexities,
into a more insightful and refined version
of the person I was before depression.
It was a long road to the realization that
living is a fluid motion,
obstacles and setbacks are shock waves that rouse emotion
to remind us we are alive.


Although life is never easy,
there really is a bright and gleaming light
somewhere at the end of that revolving tunnel.
Waste no time on shame,
we all took our own road to where we are now.
It’s the purpose of our lives,
above all else,
to spend every single day of it,
discovering who we are.











(Charlotte Claydon, 20 years old, finally healing)

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