For anyone who has been in the dark.. you can make it out into the light
I know how much people on Heart Support have been struggling with personal problems so I wanted to take this time to tell my story and let people know that, problems are apart of life and you can prevail through the darkness.
My life began in June of 1992. My mother gave birth to twins, my sister and I. We were each others best friends. We...
Rise or Die Trying
At some points you find that one thing to help pull yourself up above and beyond your struggles. I myself have found this many of times….but every time it seems to escape me the next time. As a 21 year old I have attempted to end my life atleast 5 times to which I seem to overcome my feelings quickly to only have my pain sweep back in a couple...
You were given this life, because you are strong enough to live it.
Depression, to most people who don't know about it would say this is something mental people go through. People who are not normal, who have "issues." Honestly in my opinion these people who say these things have no idea what they are talking about.
My story started when I was eleven years old. I didn't live in the nicest of towns, fights and...
My Problem with Pain
My story is simply that of personal pain. On a universal scale, my pain measures up to the of a fish in the sea, but I need to express myself and find comfort in some medium.
I have liked a girl for around five years and time after time I was told that the feelings were mutual and that my chance would be given. This girl has some skeletons in...
How Long Could it Of Lasted?
How Long Could It Of Lasted?
my story isnt much different from anyone elses that had dealt or is dealing with depression. but my story to connect with god, christ, anything of a higher power. is magicial and means alot. i owe it all to jake lurhs.
starting off in highschool, my life was fine, i had just gotten in, scared stepping through...
What I'm born with
So I am adopted from Russia. I don't know who my parents were but when i turned 17, my adopted parents and I found out that I have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder or FASD. This happens when a mother drinks during pregnancy. So i have many problems with self control. I have done drugs, stolen too many times to count, been kicked out of my...
There is never a dead end...
For most of my life I was a happy person. I never let anything bring me down and everyone knew me as that happy kid. That all changed the summer after my junior year of high school.
My father was ill for about 6 years with endocarditis which is a heart condition. He was always depressed because he also had to be on oxygen 24/7 and his legs...
How God found me....
For years i lived in sin, shame, remorse, and depression seeking God and looking for truth. I was desperate to find Him cause i knew that thats all that mattered in life and was afraid of wasting it away. I was a slave to this world and a slave to satan until one day a miracle happened. On July 22, 2011 after returning form a deep sea fishing...
Why Am I Still Here
As a kid i struggled with anger and total non-stop depression at ten years old i tried to end my life but i failed. I never felt wanted. The depression and anger got worse over those next few years. I would start to fight a kid just because it was his first day at school or jus look at me wrong. My heart was filled with bitterness rage...
Why Am I Still Here
As a kid i struggled with anger and total non-stop depression at ten years old i tried to end my life but i failed. I never felt wanted. The depression and anger got worse over those next few years. I would start to fight a kid just because it was his first day at school or jus look at me wrong. My heart was filled with bitterness rage...
What God has done for me.
A lot of people can’t understand why I believe in something so strongly, why I live most of my life with faith. Everyone has their escape; drinking, drugs, partying, sex, money…I have God. Everyone can easily grab a beer or a joint, I just do things differently; I grab my phone, go into my memo pad and read bible verses. I was like most of my...
This road has reached a dead end.
Hey Jake,
when i had nowhere else to look, i found this site. Just wanna start this off by saying thank you for showing me the light. My life as a kid, was not much of anything. My mother moved to the states when i was 3 years old. I was born in El Salvador in the poor side. The day she left i felt my good grace slip away. I struggled to keep...
Survival.
I was always bullied as a kid; it was either because I dressed different, listened to different music, acted different, because I didn't hang out with the "cool" kids and just because I was being me.
During grade 7 and 8 was when depression really kicked in for me. I was pretty much taunted every day by these kids who just didn't understand...
satisfied
You know As a child I was always picked on. I was the one that every kid thought was weird the one that they would laugh at. At first I just brushed it off because I would always manage to find someone to like me for who I am, but oddly enough they would always movie away and I was left being the outcast.
When I went to middle school I never...
College
I am a new student at Kennesaw State University. The college itself is great, but I have been struggling heavily with loneliness. Most of my friends back home were Juniors in high school, so when I graduated I was off on my own. I know plenty of older people through my sister who also attends KSU, but meeting her friends and being introduced as...
God and me in the pit
In a short time I was losing everything. My castle made of sand was crumbling all around. In a period of 4-5 weeks I had lost my job, lost my dog, truck was impounded, and I was being evicted. My life sounded like a bad country song.I spiraled into a deep depression where I wouldn' even leave my apartment to walk my dog. There were dog feces...
My struggle
i been struggling with lots of depression rage and bitterness and i feel im falling away from what good ive been a christian for only a year and its so hard todo good when you goto skool it sucks for me you get on track then you get thrown down i wanna do good but i mess up too much and i feel God hates me for it like im depressed right now i...
You are loved by He whose love knows no bounds.
Sometimes, I feel like we need to remember that. I often get sick of seeing the “forever alone” memes, or even hearing people say it. God loves us more than we could ever imagine. Our human brains are not physically capable of comprehending the depths and widths that His love abound. We get so worried about others not loving us back, when we...
Death
There's not much of a story, but idk how to ask for help. I've gone to four different churches and i feel like I'm not welcome. Anyway's I'm a 15 year old, girl and I constantly think about dying and how to do it. I have 50 plus scars all over my body from those days where I didn't think I could do it anymore. I feel like I'm alone with...
Nothing to big, nothing to small.
A lot of people these days (especially teens) deal with depression. A lot of people feel like the world has left them abandoned and broken with no hope. I have been depressed twice and once border line suicidal. My parents are split and driving back and forth 2-3 hours every other weekend was starting to take its emotional toll on me. I felt...
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I just want to cut myself again.
The anxiety is too much to take.
I'm falling into depression again.
And he doesn't understand.
Depression: I use to blame myself. ..
A few years ago, I had gotten into this huge problem with cutting. I felt so alone and empty that I thought no one would really care at all if anything were to happen to me. My brothers were away at college, my mom was never home and my dad was too busy drinking to even care about me. I have really bad social anxiety, so it's hard for me to...
Depression
A couple years ago I wasn't happy with where I was in my life and I was drinking. At first it was just with friends and it made me feel good having a good time with friends. Soon I was just asking some friends to buy stuff for me cause I'm underage. I found a false happiness in it. I still went out with friends and everything, but I thought I...
My story.
Well you asked for stories about overcoming addiction so I thought I'd share a little about mine.
I'm 17 years old, and until just a few months ago, I'd been cutting myself. It'd been 5 and a half years since I'd started, and I found that I couldn't stop. I don't really wanna make this a random sob story, haha. But well... here we go. Haha.
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Just Who I Am.
You know, I didn't know I had a real problem until my eighth grade year. Was it normal to pull out patches of your hair at night? Was it normal to put scissors to your arm over and over again? I had a problem, I knew it. Fighting my troubling childhood memories became a daily chore. Everything would make me think of my father's drug abuse, and...
The Power of Drugs
The Power of Drugs-Drug addict dies 11 minutes
The I Did Not Know book, which I wrote, mainly speaks about drug usage and abuse. Drugs were here on earth before any of us were born. Many people began using drugs in their teen years. When that is done, it is a child’s brain up against a 1000 years old clever substance. No matter what age you...
my past is not my future...
At age 35 - i am alive, i solo parent 3 of the worlds most incredible daughters, i speak, i write, i run a charity that exists to come alongside women wanting a life change from addiction issues and/or the sex industry....why?
That woman used to be me.
Now i get the honour to come alongside the women that I used to be and tell them my story.
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Oh, Brother.
So I guess it all started out when my brother was 11 or 12. He always hung out with the druggies and the "out casts" My mom never really thought anything of it, untill he started getting caught by the cops. First at age 11 he started smoking cigarretts, Then it was drinking. Mind you, he was only 11 or 12. When he started to hang out with...
Everyone's doing it
my friends were bored one day, so we decided to throw a little party. the party started out small but a lot of people showed up and it got out of control. every weekend after that we had parties, so we wouldnt be bored, and even though i dont like the way alcohol makes me feel i keep drinking. i drink to fit in. i am so self conscious that i...
Who I was, a scared, hurt teenage girl
15 years old. It all came down to one thing. I was scared and lost. My parents divorced twice my little sister passed away. My mom not totally in the picture and me not getting along with my father. I was struggling in school. I was losing a guy who really meant a lot to me. I knew people who were doing so why couldn't I? I started by using a...
