Mariella Frostrup Quotes

I went through a time of depression in my life when I was a teenager - I think a lot of teenagers do.

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

I've been a teenage girl, too, so I've had my own insecurities and my own struggles that I've got through.

When you're a teenager, a year can be crippling to maneuver through. Some things happen when you're like 13. All of a sudden you go from being this really confident, no-worry little kid to having all these weird insecurities for no reason.

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.

Anyone who's been a teenager, or raised one, knows growing up is hard. Kids can be cruel to their peers, and many young people go through tough times and experience low moments.

I definitely spent a lot of high school isolating myself because I didn't feel like I fit in. I learned how to be funny.

When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure.

When I was growing up, because I was a bit overweight and boyish, I thought I wasn't attractive to the opposite sex, but I have since met lads from my school who said I just seemed unapproachable.

I was not tormented in any way; I was never even bullied. I had a nice teenage life.

I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.

If, like me, you have many reasons to be less than secure and self-assured, and like me, you are far from stable even on your best days, don't for a moment imagine a psychotherapist will be of more help than a physiotherapist.

It's sort of my job to feel good.

When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.

Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.