EDITORIAL: Dropping out to pick myself up
Well, it has been quite a ride.
After nearly a year of trying to cope with depression and generalized anxiety disorder, I have chosen to withdraw from McMaster in order to get my bearings.
This probably does not mean much to you, as I am just a guy with a face in a newspaper. But maybe I should mean something to you.
I – along with some other editors at The Sil – am a real person and have faced real struggles. We have discussed it here in a handful of articles. You may have struggled, too, or you could be struggling right now. And that is okay.
Trying to grind through this for a year is my biggest regret – the only part of my whole story that I am ashamed about. Saying I was okay and that it would blow over only made it worse, and I should have been honest with myself.
That is the takeaway I want anyone to have from my experience. If you are feeling depressed or anything close to that, it is not going to change unless you do.
People will support you, you just have to let them.
