Self-Help Memoir - Casual - Natural - Sassy - Sincere - Upbeat - Storyteller - Millennial
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Let me tell you a story. I'm 16 years old sitting in the kitchen with my mother while she makes dinner. And just for purposes of context. Here, let me also tell you a little bit about me. At 16. I'm a hot mess. I'm drinking, I'm drugging. I just got my heart broken for the first time by my first love, I cannot bear to be in the same room as my mother most of the time. And honestly, I think the feeling is mutual. And I'm starting to feel things big and heavy adult things like pressure and inadequacy and pain and depression and anxiety. And I'm convinced I'm so amazingly special that I'm the only person on the whole planet who has ever felt these things. Basically, I'm out of my mind and terrified. And then, on top of everything else, I've stopped eating, which at this point isn't even a conscious decision. As much as it is a misguided coping mechanism. I certainly don't realize then that I'm probably starving myself in an attempt to slow down or even reverse time to carve the new curves out of my body and keep me a kid a little while longer, where life felt simpler and less lonely.