This was a hard post to feel comfortable publishing, but I hope this might help someone. I've been sad as a teenager in the past and wanted to share some ways I've learned to deal with those emotions.
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Thank you for sharing this! Aside from the value in any specific pieces of advice, I suspect it’s enormously valuable to create common knowledge like this. So many people (rightly) look up to you, and letting them know “I get sad too” is enormously validating. ❤️
Feels like an important neighbor of “the unreasonable effectiveness of raising others’ aspirations”: it’s so easy to feel like sadness or anxiety or self-doubt are signs of some deep, indelible personal flaw.
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I thought the same of a thread you shared recently about feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness of the work done and never doing or being good enough. I was like "I'm not the only one!"
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