Trust me, you guys need to let things go. I've learned my lesson the crappy way.
I used to be your average person. I went through things myself with my parents divorcing when I was 13, pets dying (I'm a HUGE animal lover, even animals dying on TV makes me cry), being shy and being sensitive. I am extremely shy and don't ever even dream of standing infront of a bunch of people and talking. Even with one person my face goes 5 shades of red. Whenever I had a presentation scheduled at school, I skipped the class. I would get so worked up about it a month before it even happened. I would think about it day and night and my heart would race at even the mention of it. I was also one who was afraid of making mistakes. I would do everything in my power to do everything perfect. One little mistake would eat me alive. If someone said something about me, months later I'd still be thinking about it.
After years of this way of thinking, I developed Anxiety Disorder. It's a chemical imbalance in your brain. I was 16 when I got my first Anxiety attack (also known as a panic attack). The best way to describe it to you is that you feel like you are dying. You can't breathe, you shake, your heart is about to jump out of your chest, your mouth is dry, your head hurts, you're chest hurts, you're dizzy, you're light-headed, you feel nauseated, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. You can't even stand up because you feel like you're gonna fall any second.
I've had it since that day and I take pills to help the chemical imbalance get back to normal so that I wont get any attacks. I can't even go to the mall alone or I will get one.
From this, I've learned that life is too damn easy to mess up when you let things get to you. If I could go back in time and be "normal" again I would. Trust me, you don't want to live like this. I'm a little better now thanks to the pills but I've been taking pills since I was 16. I'm 22 now. You get tired of pills after so long. I just wanted to be a normal teenager hanging out with my friends at the mall but instead, I spent my ENTIRE summer that year in my house. I never went anywhere because of it. My dad used to buy me some movies that I could watch to keep me occupied.
No matter how bad you think things are, you must always think of a positive thought. There is a positive solution for everything. You don't want to wait for something screwy to happen in your life before you realize you shouldn't have let things get you down.