
When Sean, a 17-year-old high school student who lives on the East Coast, began summer break a few months ago, he was in a bad place.
His life, he felt, was on a constant, depressing loop. Each day, he would wake up and do the same things over and over again. Eat breakfast, play video games, waste time. He felt as though he had nothing going on and was too embarrassed to take up his friends’ offers to hang out.