By: ShaeLeigh Higginson, Staff Writer Stress, we all get it and we all have it- no it's not a disease but it can make you ill in many ways. How do we get stressed out over stuff and why exactly? It has a lot to do with anxiety, deadlines, people, times, places you need to be. All those things can stress us out if we let those things get to us and bother us. Stress will last as long as you let it and if you do nothing about it then your stress can turn into something worse, depression. Depression is pretty much a mix of anxiety, and stress. Sometimes it can go far and lead us into a black tunnel where are bodies become weak and we thrive on the dark as if we were vampires, it all starts with not doing homework or not paying the bills on time then it turns into bad grades or court. That's when you get the anxiety when your parents find that grade sheet you hid from them or your house gets taken away for not paying bills then you get stressed out. You ask yourself the same question “What do I do?!?”. You know if you don't handle the problem it will get worse then you will get worse. You might try so hard that you lose sleep or fall apart, your chest is tight and your body is sore but you had a deadline remember and if you don’t turn those things in then you might become the deadline. You start becoming depressed, you're sad, worried, tired, anxious and stressed out so now maybe you skip a meal, you're too depressed to swallow what will only make you even more lazy or give you more weight to handle. It becomes a problem for some and a sad in the moment feeling for others but for the people who can't handle it go too far, Maybe you grab a knife and slowly slide it across your wrist letting the blood drip it's like a relief of stress and depression just for a moment because the pain on your arm is what you're more drawn to so you keep cutting just to feel better for the moment because you crave the relief so much you would do anything just to have that freedom for a minute, even if it means putting yourself on the tight rope many others walk on or have walked on, some made it to the other side, some turned around and graduated and the tight rope disappeared but others jumped off and others fell on accident and some are still walking the same tight rope because the end is so far. You're more scared of depression and stress rather than jumping off the rope. Stress is the yellow brick road to either the witch's house or emerald city. A lot of people who get stressed go left instead of right and they end up at the witch's house, others end up at emerald city and it all goes away. You can find your way to emerald city even if it means you're on the tight rope of cutting, depression, starving yourself. You can get away from all of that, your friends, the lion, the tin man and the scarecrow can help you, even if they’re just depressed people telling many other depressed people the way to emerald city while they stay behind and wait. Stress can lead to death if you let it. Thanks for writing on such an important subject.
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