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All my life I have struggled with my relationship with food. It got to be it's worst when I entered high school. Seeing all of the skinny, beautiful, popular girls made me self conscious, and I began to throw up all of my meals. I would allow myself a bottle of water and a single stick of gum per day that I would keep down. Everything else I would eat came back up. For months this went on undetected by my friends and family. No one thought it was weird how I would immediately

Today is Monday, November 24. I roll over in bed to look at the clock, there it is blinking up at me with the glaring 4:45 am. I roll back over to try to sleep but of course my mind is already awake playing scenarios for the day over and over. Like what if I forgot to order a part? What if there is something I don't know how to fix? What if people get mad at me? With all of this running through my head I lost track of time, it's already 5:30. I take a deep breath and roll out

At the age of 15 I was diagnosed with Depression. Everything that I once found enjoyable became miserable and the world seemed black and white. I was always sad I didn't want to do anything I once had. Even getting up and going to school in the morning was a challenge. I couldn't feel anything anymore, it was like living in a cloud watching over myself. Depression extended into my relationships, my work, my home life, and my education. I stopped trying in school, stopped play