“I literally couldn’t function and I was struggling very mightily and not showing it to anyone in the world…I didn’t even talk to most of my friends because simply talking about it was so upsetting to me because of the possibility—the thought that this was me for life—that if I talked about it, it would become real and I didn’t want it to become real.  I still had hope that maybe one day it will go away.”

—Jonathan Fields