Mental Health
My mental health is getting really bad right now. I have heart palpitations all the time. I had 3 big anxiety attacks today. I feel like people around me expect my problems to have just gone away because I'm in California and I get to hike everyday. My problems feel many times worse here than they did in Illinois. On a separate but related note, I've wanted to write about an old teacher of mine for some time now and I think I'm just going to start now. I am realizing now that a lot of my mental health struggles aren't new things. I've had these issues my whole life, but they only really started to get significant in my elementary years. I have fond memories of all of my elementary teachers, except for one. Mr. C was an upper el teacher for most of the time that I was in elementary, and was present in my schooling from 1st through 7th grade. For that whole time he would treat me differently than he would treat other kids. I know I had very little respect for him and ...