Lena Ahmed Cox

The Impossible

"What fufils you?" Asking that to someone who has suffered from depression for about fourteen years, is intense. But if I’m being honest, there is quite a lot that speaks to my soul, that makes me feel like a whole person again. I’m not going to instantly say why anyone should support me, you don’t know me, but let me give you a glimpse into my life, and relive these endless years. I just turned twenty, and fourteen years ago, I should’ve died. I should have, but I didn’t. I was just six years old, I remember being told this story countless times – I had been sick and out of school for about a week, my mother had just dropped off my older sister, and I was sitting in the back, we were just driving home when I asked, “Am I going to die”?