The Fine Art of Recovery
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 8:11PM 
Near the end of primary school, Bronwyn Loucks began to suffer from increasingly frequent and severe bouts of sadness and worry.
“Sometimes my heart would be racing so fast, I felt like I was going to pass out,” she says. “Other times, I would come home from school and just collapse in a heap.”
In junior high, the problems grew worse and Ms. Loucks developed an eating disorder, bulimia, in addition to anxiety disorder and depression.
“I really felt like I was going to die – but I felt like I deserved to die.”
Then one day, she's not sure why, the teenager from Chesley, a small Ontario town south of Owen Sound, reached out: She called the Kids Help Phone, and was urged to confide in a trusted adult and get help.
At a loss about how to express the depth of her despair, she wrote a long letter and handed it to her mother. Before Mom had even finished reading it, the two were on their way to the local emergency room. More Here
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