frick how-to's, this is about just 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜.

  *First off, I want to remind you all that I am not a medical practitioner. I've taken no medical classes and have very little knowledge except from my own experiences. That's all I'm sharing with you today, along with a little informational research I've done.      So, here we go, this is my journey with the semi-popular birth control drug: Depo-Provera.      When I first decided to get birth control, I was roughly a junior in high school. I was already experiencing a wide array of mental illness symptoms at this time. I, like many others in this critical stage, was terrified about having the "talk" with my highly conservative parents. Because of this, I tirelessly researched ways around this problem and actually went to Planned Parenthood, filled out a "form" so that I wouldn't have to pay the total full cost out of pocket (because I was a broke 17 year old who couldn't use her parents insurance, lest they find out and disown me) - and las...

            It's not a far stretch to say that a plethora of things have fallen apart in this era of uncertainty. I know my life has definitely gotten hectic. I've struggled to keep things organized, clean my room, and sometimes even wake up and brush my teeth. There's been numerous days where I've struggled to even get myself out of bed. But instead of letting this debilitate me further, I think I've learned that sometimes it's better to just come to terms with it. With that, though, the question then becomes: How???     One helpful thing my therapist told me that I thought I'd share is "to treat this December and January as precisely what it is - a break."      I wasn't sure about this advice at first, but the more I considered it the more I realized that this is a good and fair point. Whether you were at school and in the dorms or found yourself stuck at home on Zoom with your family this semester, you still made it thr...