“I wanna be a lot of things, so much pent up inside of me. I wanna be stronger, too long I’ve sat here undecidedly. Planning strategy, half of me know it’s all just a fallacy, failing miserably, drastically, and then I crash dramatically.”

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Tyler Joseph writes about how his depression and anxiety makes it difficult for him to perform, and to perform well — instead, he just ends up failing and crashing every time.

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