Mental health difficulties like anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder can cause many problems in your daily life and could lead to bigger problems over time, its best to keep your mental health in check to have the most positive life that you can, even if you are having mental health issues you CAN recover and find yourself, but it doesn't just happen automatically you have to take the necessary steps for things to change, whether that is getting the help you need from a therapist or medication or just simply cutting toxic people out of your life that drag you down, it may seem hard but there is things you have to realize before making these steps, IT IS okay to do what you need to do to make yourself feel better, it doesn't matter if you see a therapist or are on medication or are not engaging all your time into people who make life harder for you, sometimes people don't take themselves into consideration when it comes down to making the best choice for themselves, If others don't want you to succeed or they judge you for making some of these choices then you know they are the people you should be cutting off, i'm not a therapist i'm just a 16 year old girl, you might think my opinion is irrelevant but i think loving yourself is the most important thing in the world, it has taken me awhile to figure that out and building up the courage to put myself first has been my biggest struggle in my life and has lead to every problem i've had, if i can learn to love-myself i know you can do it to and I promise loving yourself and keeping good mental health will lead you far in this world, you just have to be ready for everything because life isn't always gonna be sunshine and rainbows sometimes your going to go through things that might seem impossible to stay strong through, but you got this, believe in yourself!