By Leah McClellan

Have you ever been in an impossible situation you thought you’d never get out of? Ever feel loaded down with problems that never end? How about totally down in the dumps, lost, scared, hurt, abandoned, bummed out, miserable, and totally depressed?

I have. I know what the inside of that deep, dark cave looks like, and it ain’t pretty.

I’m usually a positive thinker and a problem-solver, though, so it takes a string of disasters with no breather and no solutions in sight over a long period of time to really get me down. That’s happened twice in my life. Let me tell you about the first time and how I got myself out of the cave.

In my mid 20s, life was not only good, it was amazing. I had three more semesters... More...