My advice would be to look carefully at who you hang around with. Not everyone is an awful person but some people are just plain toxic for your well being. Try and surround yourself with people who truly love you and only want to see you succeed. This is life. Once you find a kink, you gotta use the bandaid rule. Rip it off quick before you waste too much time and regret it in the future.

A quick story about that. I'm 11 months younger than my brother and him and his friends got me high for the first time with weed. I basically ditched my friends who were more school and career orientated and started hanging out with the wrong crowds.

I wish I had the power to change that and the only other thing would be my mental health. I'm 29 now but when I was 16 I wishI could have spoken up about it and said I feel different. Different is OKAY and if someone doesn't understand that, then again they are toxic to your health.