When Moods Change Like Time and Tides

Learning to accept struggle without allowing it to define us

Learning to accept struggle without allowing it to define us

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Something is wrong with me.

I feel the drop in my mood — a plummet downward without cause. I tell myself it’s just hormones. I tell myself that these feelings will pass. I feel the itch of the dark between my shoulder blades and crowding around my third eye.

I a…