Something we've all been victims of. This year I missed a day off school because I saw a friend of mine not feeling well and the next day or two I felt like I had taken whatever that person had. This thought process, that of “Oh, he/she is sick, I will get him/her now.” That in itself is a pretty negative mindset. Almost as if we were playing the victim card in the drama triangle. Many people, especially teenagers like me, take the angle of. “Oh, I feel so bad. I feel terrible. There's nothing I could have done, it's a big thing going around the school.” Transforming that disease into a sort of attacker. Now here's the real news: People are being told not to take illnesses that are completely in their heads any less seriously than real ailments. Even the thought of getting sick can make a person physically ill. Isn't that crazy? All because I think I have the flu, that I can actually give myself flu-like symptoms that are theoretically just as aggressive, all because I thought I had the flu? This too would be the negative, pessimistic point of view that would regain the upper hand. Telling yourself over and over that you don't try