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title: How One Teen Navigates Mental Health, The Political Environment, and the Pandemic
description: NEWS:CPR:CV HS student Daijah shares her mental health journey
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# [How One Teen Navigates Mental Health, The Political Environment, and the Pandemic](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/how-one-teen-navigates-mental-health-the-political-environment-and-the-pandemic)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 10/27/20

CPR: 

“Everything sucks sometimes but it’s not forever.” 

Daijah, a 16-year old from Denver, made that pithy comment on a voice memo on her iPhone months ago, well before the COVID-19 pandemic. But an insight like that one — discovered on her own long and twisting mental health journey prior to the pandemic — is helping her cope now.

[Read/Listen to the full story here. ](https://www.cpr.org/2020/10/23/everything-sucks-sometimes-but-its-not-forever-how-one-teen-navigates-mental-health-politic-environment-and-the-pandemic/)

 

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