Amanda describes dropping out of school due to illness as one of the worst days of her life.
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I was alone. I was living on my own at the time at university. And I said I can’t keep up anymore. I can’t dedicate myself to my studies and take care of myself anymore. I couldn’t do that. So I withdrew from university in October 2018. And looking back on it I think it was one of the worst days of my life because I had no life after that. Every last bit of normalcy I had in my life up until that point was just gone. I knew at that point I was a sick person and that’s what my life was going to be.
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