technicolor.eyes's blog

So I was sitting in homeroom one morning when a classmate comes up to me and asks for me to talk about a topic that has been bothering her during my human relations club meeting. Of course I was all ears because the point of my club is to get peoples' ideas out. I was utterly shocked by what her "bothersome topic" was.

I just wanted to tell all of you about something called To Write Love on Her Arms. What is To Write Love on Her Arms? It is a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for those struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I am already sick and tired of all of the college essays and applications that I have been doing.  Last year I already was worn out from the studying for the SAT and SAT II and ACT, and that was just the tip of this iceberg.  Now we use those scores to rally points for ourselves from these colleges that we really want to get into, but might not because of

Eating disorders can affect anyone; they aren't limited to celebrities or those people you see on daytime talk shows. They are real, they are all around us, and they are on the rise.