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Studying Abroad With A Mental Illness, Meghan E. O'Donnell Dec 2017

Studying Abroad With A Mental Illness, Meghan E. O'Donnell

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Whenever anybody asks me about my experience studying abroad, I lie. I tell them that it was transformative, that I returned a more confident, learned, and enlightened person. I tell them all of the things I wish were true, pretending that all of the dreams I had about how studying abroad would affect me were actually the reality of my experience. [excerpt]