Sonder: Youth Mental Health Stories of Struggle & Strength | Page 92

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY CONT.
The good is poetry, community, and volunteering. The good is
finding the right medication and talking openly with my friends
and teachers about mental health. The good is being okay with
an essay that’s not perfect -- because I’m happy to be alive
to write this at all. The good is believing that my pain has a
purpose, and this is it. This is my message, my Story.
The best is letting the good and bad and ugly exist without
shame or judgement. The best is knowing that this thing is an
uphill battle, but I’m not the only one.
If you feel good and bad and ugly at one and the same time,
you’re not the only one. ●
90  Resilience