If you have somehow not seen the video below, please watch it all of the way through. It is ridiculously clever, original and hugely stimulating. The last spoken bit hits home because the moments of light really do make the shadows feel darker when it comes back again and again. Ren understands because he has experienced it for many years and he remains a positive advocate for those who are also struggling.

When I was 17 years old, I shouted out into an empty room
Into a blank canvas, that I would defeat the forces of evil
And for the next ten years of my life, I suffered the consequences
With autoimmunity, illness, and psychosis
As I got older, I realised that there were no real winners
And there were no real losers in physiological warfare
But there were victims and there were students
It wasn’t David versus Goliath, it was a pendulum
Eternally swayin’ from the dark to the light
And the more intensely that the light shone, the darker the shadow it cast

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