Strength

Through my life, I have suffered from emotional, physical, and psychological abuse. I have been abandoned by family and friends, experienced heartbreak, and I have and still suffer from depression and suicidal thoughts. My parents have been divorced since I was five, and my dad remarried a woman with a bad temper six months after the divorce. But, though I suffer from depression and occasionally have anxiety or feel suicidal, I know I wouldn’t be who I am now if I hadn’t gone through the things I have. I believe that all of us are strong, only some of us have to be strong more than others. You aren’t strong until strong is the only choice you have. We can choose whether to press forward or to fall back but you will always have what you need to make it through.
When have you had to be strong and where does strength come from? Why do we need strength and how do you find it?