“Attempting to kill myself. Ever since first grade I’ve been suffering from depression and post traumatic stress disorder, and three different anxiety disorders. I had a plan that I wasn’t going to live to see my sixteenth birthday and then I moved out from one school that was all negativity, transferred schools and it got a lot better. My sixteenth birthday came and went and I was still here.”
-Amanda Bardin, CAD tech program, 20, Livermore, California