Finding healing of depression at college
Originally appeared online in the teen series Your Healings - March 4, 2025.
I was so excited for my first year of college. It was a fresh start in a new place, and I was looking forward to studying engineering.
I had been away from home for months at a time before, so I wasn’t concerned about the possibility of feeling homesick. But after the first month at college, meeting new people and going to fun events quickly got old, and I felt very alone.
At times, everything around me felt so cold and dark that I couldn’t get myself to leave my room. I felt hopeless but was embarrassed about that, so I didn’t tell anyone.
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