Hey! My name is Caitlin and I am 16 year old living in Sydney Australia. Within the past two years I have experienced three mental illnesses. I started off with depression following a pretty normal life event before it progressed to anxiety. My depression lasted for half a year and I thought that I would never be happy, that I wouldn’t have a sense of purpose or a large circle of friends who would shout hi as I walked by. But today I have exactly that and I couldn’t be more grateful. It would be fair enough to say that I’ve had my road blocks and enduring times but it was in these times that I found myself. That I found strength, bravery, courage, wisdom and even though I hated suffering, I would never go back and change it any other way.