Overall I am quite disappointed because this was not the important and impactful collection I imagined it to be. Most of the essays I found interesting and insightful but there were so incredibly many piece where I did not understand why they're part of this collection. Multiple pieces do not mention mental health at all and even more do not "start a conversation about mental health". I also was very confused on what the intend and the target audience of this collection were: this is advertised as primarily for young adults but there are so many pieces about adult experiences no teenager has experienced yet. I didn't get what some parts were trying to do because they were more autobiographical than advise or conversation starters. Furthermore I do not think this was a well edited collection: there were five chapters with an introduction but no pieces in that chapter related or had anything to do with the set topic of the chapter. There were also a lot of different pieces of media but the same kind was always grouped together, e.g. there are around five illustrations but they're all in the same chapter, never anywhere else just all in one bulk, which made for quite a jarring reading experience. My favorite essay was Coda by Meredith Russo My overall average rating is 2.8⭐️