Audrey just turned 18 and relishes crossing into adulthood:
She voted for the first time this year, graduated high school and is
college-bound next month. The honors student typically wakes up "a bundle
of nerves," she says, which had fueled her work volunteering, playing
varsity sports and leading student government.
But for years, she also struggled with anxiety,
depression and obsessive compulsive disorder — all of which drove her to work
harder.
"I was spending so much time on my homework, I felt
like I was losing my friends — so my thoughts would race over and over again
about my friends," says Audrey. "And then I would have the difficult
thoughts about suicide and some scarier stuff." (NPR agreed to use only
her first name to protect her medical privacy.)
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