By Andrew Field Trigger warning: suicide attempted. The amount of pressure teenagers feel to fit in, to meet expectations—academic, familial, social—is a narrative of impossibility and invisibility. For this reason, teenagers are singularly vulnerable in our society and culture. I know I experienced this. I struggled with depression as a teenager in high school, an endless sense that I did not fit in anywhere, that there was something wrong with me. I felt unseen, unheard; and later that depression developed into a mental illness, schizoaffective disorder. Deb JJ Lee’s In Limbo is a book uniquely suited to discuss these issues… Read More
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