I feel like I am slipping further and further into depression. About a year ago I moved back to where I grew up because I had a breakdown in my mental health. I quit my job of 8 years, went back to university, and started therapy. This summer has been really hard. I've been taking a class called Intro to Interpersonal Communication, and it keeps raising a lot of painful issues for me. Actually, all my classes in the past year have been very triggering for me (studying child development in Early Childhood Education). But this summer I've not had a job, just focusing on therapy and my one class. I just feel like my self-esteem has plummeted in the last few years, and not working has made it even worse, but I just haven’t been well enough. I am scared that when I graduate next spring that I won't have the self-confidence to land a job. I have a paper I am working on for my summer class, and it's about my personal frame of reference and how that has affected my communication style, and it's making me have to go back though my life and think about how my experiences in my family (often very abusive) influenced the way I communicate. This is the hardest paper I've ever written, because it's so personal, and I am close to tears every time I sit down and work on it.