Over the last few weeks, since the season two release of "13 Reason Why," I've noticed that there's a lot of debate about whether the show is important or not. That's quite confusing to me, a sexual assault survivor and someone who deals with so many other parallels to the characters, why was it a question if that should be brought to light in mainstream media?

I read things saying that it glorifies suicide. But if you've watched the show and saw the way Hannah's death destroyed every single person she knew you would know that not to be true. This show deals with the hard stuff, the stuff that you and I don't want to talk about but the thing is, someone needs to about it.

I've found so much healing through this show and through characters like Jessica Davis and Clay Jensen, I've found such a sense of not being alone in so many situations just from watching a tv show.

The problem I've seen people have most with this show is that it's triggering and hard to watch for a lot of people and that brings me this question: is it supposed to be easy? Is watching kids struggle through coping with the suicide of a friend and watching kids deal with surviving suicide attempts and sexual assault and battling drug addiction supposed to be easy?

No.

It's supposed to make you uncomfortable and make you question why the world is the way it is and why people have to go through such awful things. It's supposed to start a conversation and obviously, it has.

I understand this show isn't for everybody and that for some people the triggers are too much (which is why there are warnings before the episodes) and to those people, all I can suggest is to not watch it? This is vital to so many people including me and I hope that this show continues to use its platform to start the tough conversations and give girls like Jessica Davis and Hannah Baker the voice they deserve.