Nowadays, I’ve seen more and more kids with self-esteem issues. Kids don’t like themselves, some hate themselves. They hate every bit of their body, their face, their height, their weight, everything. It gets to the point where they can’t even think properly about anything else, all they do is think about themselves, making sure they’re appealing enough so that they fit in, or that they won’t get singled out. When all they do is think about themselves, they can’t compete anything. Their brain is too busy with thinking about themselves that they can’t complete basic things like homework. It’s not just themselves, it’s also peer pressure. A person’s friends or peers can pressure them into doing things they normally wouldn’t do on their own, like drinking or smoking. And if they stand against that peer pressure, the person becomes different in other people’s eyes. There’s only so much pressure someone’s brain can take, eventually the person will cave in and start drinking or smoking in an attempt to self-medicate, or to make themselves feel better. Except it doesn’t, it just ends up making them feel worse. The person just ends up coming back again and again to–

No, no, that’s not it.

People turn to drugs, or drinking, or smoking because they believe it will make them feel better. But it doesn’t. It may help them calm their mind o