Dear Lo,

I am codependent on everyone around me. I have taken up the persona of being the class clown or always having a joke ready to make people laugh. And that feels like me. I feel like I enjoy it, but now I know that that is me seeking validation of being funny and therefore, a fun person from the audience. Do I need to change that part of me? How do I identify it AS me?

~Alexis

Dear Lo,

I was recently on the path to graduate college and get a full-time job with a company that I have been working part-time for all four years of college. However, due to a rash decision that I made, I am no longer on track to graduate this semester and I lost my relationship with the company that I worked for previously. I feel like I cannot trust myself to make decisions anymore, and I constantly find myself thinking about the past when I had it all. I developed severe anxiety and depression as a result of the events that happened, and I constantly catastrophize everything in my life. What can I do to get better?

~Anonymous