We The Youth

     Hey there, In this day and age, when everyone is either depressed, anxious, confused, stressed, suicidal, self loathing, or has some other issue going on, youth are faced with trying to be peer-support systems. And it can be a good thing, for sure, but there's been so many times in my personal experience, as well as times I have observed with others, where it's like all I can do it make a situation worse. Sometimes it's because I don't have the experience, sometimes it's because  I do, sometimes it's because I having something going on at the same moment, sometimes I over empathize, sometimes I don't empathize at all. Whatever the case may be, it seems like I make things worse when I try to help.  I wish I could say I was writing this post to share with you all the things I did to overcome this, all the things I've figured out to work my way through any scenario, but sadly can't.  All I have to offer to you is a very small list of things that I...