Anxiety and Depression got the best of me

My name is David and I’m local to the Washington metropolitan area. This is the first time I’ve been open about my mental health. I suffered from clinical anxiety from when I started high school. I eventually overcame the little obstacles that came my way and successfully got into college. I never expected that I would encounter harder and worse obstacles in college. When I started college back in the fall of 2017 I suffered an accident during the second week of school that left me with a serve concussion. I was incapable of going to classes and I had to go to physical therapy not only that but it messed with my mental health and stirred up some previous anxiety and depression issues. I slowly came to realize that my will to live became nonexistent. I shut myself away from friends, family, and all of society really. Then when I slowly came out from my “prison” I met someone who I thought had my best interest. But they didn’t and they took advantage of me and they physically abused me when I was most vulnerable. After this occurred I ran to the two people that I called “my greatest friends” and to my surprise they blamed me for what had happened. They acted as if I deserved what happened to me for being too vulnerable. After this incident, I tried to take my life many times because I was tried of living in a cruel world. At this point I was already failing my classes so I asked my parents if we could leave the country. My reason was that I didn’t feel safe at school nor at home. Luckily, my mom dropped everything and we left the country. We went to her home country and her family opened their arms to us and they did everything they could to help me overcome my depression and suicidal thoughts. I can’t explain how comforting it was to be around them that it cured my depression. After spending a month with them I learned to value my life and no longer wanted to take it. Once I became a strong individual, I decided to come back to the States and confront the issues I had left behind. To my surprise I had the power to overcome these issues the whole time but I didn’t have enough faith in myself. I even gave school another chance and ended up receiving a 3.9 GPA, which is very surprising for me. I feel like we are all strong individuals capable of overcoming many obstacles but we just need to believe in ourselves. I would be lying if I said that I was 100% cured from my anxiety and depression but I now know how strong I am to overcome so much that when it hits me I can get back on my feet again. I also feel like we should find our “anchor” I thought it was my two greatest friends but I was wrong so I gave up looking, that doesn’t mean others should. Maybe you’ll be like me who didn’t realize that my best “anchor” to prevent me from sinking was my mom.