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My Journey with Mental Health. Towards the end of last year, I had a… | by Ray Liu | Medium

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While mental health has been an important part of my journey ever since my initial encounters with its challenges in high school, this incident gave me a real-life wakeup call to its importance. It also motivated me to want to share more of my story with others in case it might be helpful to anyone else out there. In short, my journey with mental health has led to some of the most challenging moments of my life, but has also been directly related to some of the most fulfilling ones. In high school, I experienced my first encounters with depression and the stigma attached to it. While it’s often hard for me to pinpoint an exact cause for my mental health challenges, in general I was attending a high-achieving school with strong academic rigor and competitiveness, so there were definitely stressors that resulted from being in that environment. I was also a victim of bullying, and wasn’t as mindful and intentional about my social media use as I am now. In hindsight, while the actual sympt

My Journey with Mental Health Ray Liu 7 min read · Jun 21, 2022 -- 1 Listen Share Towards the end of last year, I had a relative take his own life. While mental health has been an important part of my journey ever since my initial encounters with its challenges in high school, this incident gave me a real-life wakeup call to its importance. It also motivated me to want to share more of my story with others in case it might be helpful to anyone else out there. In short, my journey with mental health has led to some of the most challenging moments of my life, but has also been directly related t

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