Amy Reed, now a mother, a writer, and 10 years sober, reflects on her past struggles with addiction and mental health. She thinks back to her life as a teenager: teenager Amy gets high with her friends but also starts getting high alone because it is the only way she knows how to function. When her friends grow out of the experimenting stage as adults, she doesn't. She goes to rehab when she is 16, but as a model straight A student, she knows how to play a role. She fakes her way through rehab and in't sober long when she gets out. She is a highly functioning addict, so although she overdoses a couple times, she still goes to work, does yoga, jogs, and makes everything seem perfect on the outside. Eventually, she comes to terms with the fact that everything is not perfect. Amy accepts her struggles with depression, PTSD, and other mental health battles; she also begins writing. She attends a creative writing workshop in college where she writes about her battles, but her professor hates "women's writing." A letter from an anonymous student calls her writing crazy ramblings and says that she needs help. She stops writing for years because of this, until she goes through rehab again at the age of 29. This time, Amy takes rehab seriously and has been clean ever since. She's continued to put her struggles into writing in the form of novels that have helped other people feel less alone in their battles.