As you're about to hear in the following stories, mental health is not something to be taken lightly, and it's important to stay on top of your mental health.

You grow up imagining your life will look a certain way at a certain age, but things don't always work out the way you pictured.

Maybe you don't end up in the job you thought you would.

Maybe you're feeling stuck, or like everyone else is moving forward while you're just standing still.

It can be hard to talk about that, even harder to ask for help.

Maybe therapy always feels like something other people did.

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So a little backstory. I dated this girl when I was in my senior year of high school. I'm 20 now, so it was a couple of years ago, but still pretty fresh in my mind.

For privacy's sake, I won't use her real name, so I'll refer to her as Grace.

Grace and I met through our job, which I now know is never ideal.

Before we started dating, though, there were red flags that I simply shouldn't have ignored.

For instance, she would come to her place of work for hours just to watch me work, and I would catch her staring at me every once and a while.

Besides that, a few months into our relationship, things started getting pretty toxic.

I would constantly feel suffocated.

I had no time for my hobbies, friends, or even myself.

She was the type of girl to ask where I was, who I was with, and what I was doing 24-7. If I didn't answer a phone

call, it would end up being 25 missed calls and a ton of text messages that would ultimately

turn into a fight, even if I was just using the bathroom. It got to the point where I couldn't

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