I just call it what it actually is - an emotion. Adults call this ‘teenage angst.’ I believe that ‘teenage angst’ is a pathetic and patronising way of phrasing feelings that millions of teenagers (and, let’s be honest, adults too) experience. I properly and utterly hated myself, for a whole array of reasons. I was angry about everything, I didn’t have very many friends, I hated school with an absolute rage, I listened to sad music on the bus. At fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I understood myself to have very much the average sort of ‘sad.’ I cried sometimes at the end of the day. “I have never been diagnosed with depression. I wrote Solitaire because I was a very sad teenage girl,” she stated. She has been diagnosed with severe depression, has been pronounced mentally ill, and I have been lauded for my portrayal of depression in young adults. “She has been called an overdramatic, silly teenage girl. In a guest piece for Epic Readsin 2014, Oseman wrote that since the novel was published, Tori’s character has been called many things.
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