Dear honey:

In my experience, babies are not born to be depressed. Things happened in your earlier life, and those experiences led to your anxiety and depression.

You wrote about your boyfriend: “he taught me to love myself, he taught me to be bold. He taught me a lot of things and I will forever be grateful for that”-

– your boyfriend taught you to love yourself and to be bold.  This means that it is possible for you to learn to love yourself and to be bold.

Why didn’t your parents teach you these things, and what is it that they taught you?

anita