My story begins early in my childhood. As a child, I never truly fit in anywhere. I was a wanderer, a moving force without a set direction. I often felt alone and empty, sad even, but I had no idea how to cope with what I was feeling. Around the time of early middle school, I succumbed to clinical depression and anxiety. My parents had no idea what to do, so they didn’t talk about it. I didn’t talk about it. Nobody talked about it. A man in a white coat wrote a prescr