Mental Health Day
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Last published Wed, Jul 18, 2018
15 year old Maddy Thonesan has been struggling with suicide, low self-esteem, and anxiety since the third grade. Her life is all normal for the most part but ever since her mom died she taught herself to bottle her feelings up and hide them away from the people in her life. This causes Maddy to gradually get worse and worse without people knowing and then she just explodes. Her friends try to save her from herself but it's too difficult for them. Can she ever be saved from the darkness within herself? Read the story and find out.
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