--- title: — type: post date: 2019-08-10 weight: 5 --- When I was young, back before I knew what mental health entailed, what anxiety and abuse and depression really meant, I was convinced I was having semi-regular mental breakdowns. That was the phrase I used then, because I was unsure of what it meant to have a panic attack. This was before LiveJournal, of course. This was before I was writing on the internet, or even really on the internet at all. This was before you. > No, it wasn't.