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Collected Item: “The Inner Turmoil”

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The Inner Turmoil

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Image from North Central Behavioral Health Systems

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

The pandemic has led me to often sit alone in my room for hours at a time. This type of free time and idleness has fixated my brain on the vast negativity circling around the coronavirus. From the array of mental health issues from the picture, I have been battling anxiety, stress, and panic, mostly coming from the idea of losing nearly six months of my life. I will never be 18 again, will never have these six months back of being an adolescent in my last year of high school, and will never get a chance of making my final mistakes while it is still ‘acceptable’. I have to enter adulthood without truly finishing off my adolescence.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#coronavirus,#mentalhealth,#mind,#battle,#panic

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Image from North Central Behavioral Health Systems

Give this story a date.

2020-08-20
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