115 Days of Sobriety & Counting.
a battle worth fighting. 115 Days Clean&Counting
Raised in a Baptist home I felt I learned everything I possibly could growing up. Attending a private grade school, and having a federal agent as a father, addiction was the farthest thing from my mind.
I had parents that cared, countless friends, and hundreds of reasons not to use drugs and to...
Anything is possible with God
My name is Kevin Thompson and I would like to share my story to inspire anyone else who might be going through what I went through. This is not a horrible nightmare-like story that you see in a movie but it was not something easy for me to accomplish. I grew up with a Christian family but was forced to go to Church and questioned at the time if...
Tough Childhood
Hey, I'm 17 years old. I've been a christian my hole life but I've had a hard childhood. Throughout my childhood me and my mom have been abused both mentally and physically by my father. My father had my mom in such a control that she did not dare to tell anyone about it. So throughout my hole childhood I've sometimes been beaten so hard that...
My Encounter With Satan and God
So before this some of you probably knew me as the guy who never seemed to be happy and the guy who sorta hated God. I went to church all throughout Junior High and High School. I took it serious at first, but I started to let church turn into a social event more than a place of fellowship. I shortly fell off after I graduated. I started...
Conquer
Just one year ago I was struggling with sin in my life. It was consuming me. I could control it for weeks on end and sometimes a month or so. That short amount of time I would fall back into it and go back to square one. I would pray over and over again for God to help me out and help me get over this seemingly impassible wall. Every time I...
Mission Accomplished: Role Models
What a blessing it is to be able to share my victory!
January 13th, 2012 was not the first time i had the pleasure of attending an August Burns Red concert, fortunately. However, this time it was different; this time my brother and I were there for so much more...A Simple Thank You!
It was a frigid night in New Jersey at the Starland...
4 months
I took a huge leap in August. I left a life that I was quite happy with and a boy that I was quite in love with in Portland, with almost no warning, because I was positive God was calling me to. He had been pushing the idea for months previous, but I kept telling him "No, I'm so happy! I don't want to give up on all of this." But then, my Mom...
Second Chances
Back in July of 2011, I posted a story called Health Struggles. I suppose this could be considered a continuation...
When I was diagnosed with Crohn’s in the summer of 2003, I had just completed my first year of university (at the time I was going for BSC. Wildlife Biology). The classes were so big. The professors didn’t give a hoot about...
College: My Breaking Point
I just finished my first semester of college and when I look back on this semester, I see that I've gone through more than I went through in all of high school, especially spiritually. Looking from the outside, High school seems like it would have made a giant impact on my life, and it has. I met some great, life changing people, who I love...
Look left, look right, we all have issues, look up- He's the only One that can help.
My name is Edna, I am a youth worker at this awesome church on Long Island New York, called the journey. For the past month or so we have been doing a series of messages biased on Isaiah 9:6-- "For a Child has been born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders and he will be called, Mighty Counselor, Mighty God,...
Everything Is A Blessing.
Every single thing that happens to you in your life is a blessing and a sign from God. Every. Single. Thing.
Think about that for a moment. I mean it. Every. Single. Thing. The story I'm about to share with you all doesn't sound like a blessing at all. It's a sad story, and has left me with many mixed emotions of sorrow, and guilt... But it's...
Making God Smile
My entire life has been centered around making people proud of me. I recently stood in worship of an amazing God and truly set every worldly worry aside and His love washed over me and I couldn't even stand on my wont feet under the weight of His presence. I saw His face, the joyous smileing face of Jesus and He danced. He danced in joy because...
Give up Hate, Give in to Love
Growing up I didn't have an easy life. My parents were never together, not to mention they hated one another (and still do). I witnessed a parent being abused by significant other for most of my preteen years. My older sister had a child at age17. My brother and I always fought, sometimes violently. Through all that time I never knew why I was...
Not Complete.
Growing up was difficult and confusing. I was always causing trouble.
I rebelled against everything. If I was told not to do something I would do it for some stupid reason. This caused many beatings.
Everyone believed that I was the Devil's Child and I was called Viet Cong by my grandparents.
Life was bad. We were really poor.
My Dad had bad...
Not An Option
Suicide was my only option. Nothing was getting better. I was failing in school, I was an alcoholic, all I ever thought about was getting high or taking pain medication. All I ever did was eat, sleep, and cut. That razor and the blood it helped produce was my only comfort. My friends were busy, as they rightly should have been. I was proud of...
Spiritual Challenges
I am 35, I live in Florida. I have had many addictions in my life that God has delivered me from. In my teens and early twenties I was hooked on alcohol, weed, tobacco, and pornography. I felt that I couldn't be happy in life without these substances. I had been to church on and off again all my life, and made many half hearted attempts to live...
Depression, Emotions, Christianity
Something I have experienced from fellow Christians during my journey is a pervasive message that we need to just let emotions go and give them to the Lord, as in avoid or bypass them. Now, I'm not sitting here saying we are to be out of control. Nor am I naive enough to think that some people don't have emotions way out of control and are on a...
I am a complusive overeater
I can remember when I first started to eat to cope with my problems. I ate so much that I threw up dinner. I felt this urge to overeat. My parents didn't care that I over ate. I really started to gain the weight in the second grade. This was after I had moved from my only home to a new house far away from the people I knew. I wouldn't want to...
its a slow fade
my story was originally called "its a slow fade, when black and white are turned to grey" well for me the dad issue isnt any better... but i stoped smoking for the most part... basically cuz my brother moved out of town... but anyways! i am moving to a new town so my plan for the next 2 yrs of my life is to pretend that all the crap that...
A reason to give up
It's funny how God works. I've been struggling with self-injury for nearly two years, and about seven months ago I was given the perfect opportunity to give it up. Home life was better, I was close to God, I had a fantastic boyfriend, and I was doing well in school. There was no reason for me to continue cutting . . . but I did.
I started...
Letting it all go....
Hey, I wrote something on here a while ago...something full of sadness and loss of hope. At that point I felt like I could never move on, never be normal. I treated depression with cutting and moping. Even if I could i refused to see the sunshine in all of those amazing situations. About a couple of months after I actually realized I was...
Rescued (follow up to Sorrow)
Last February my first boyfriend broke up with me. It was the worst experience of my entire life. I felt worthless, unloved, alone, depressed, engulfed in my never ending pain and sorrow. I was swallowed alive by my hurt and couldn't escape, there was no exit, i couldn't see the light. People told me that everyday got better but each day I...
got the help i needed part 2
just an update. I still struggle with depression and anxiety and still have to check that things are turned off or locked up but i feel stronger in myself. I'm still on the anti depressants and they do help.
When i start to get anxious or depressed I have to remind myself that the world won't end if i havent turned a switch off and to not...
Just Another One
Hello, I posted my story on this site a little while back. I can't say that I am a great deal better now than I was then. I am feeling better now, but it is feeling more and more like the calm before a storm hits. I know it will hit again, it always does, and I have resigned myself to the fact that these storms will probably come and go...
Follow up for Feeling Alone For No Reason
So it's been awhile since I wrote my story up here. Half a year pretty close.
I just wanted to let you know that things were good, and then the got alil worse. I "relasped" once I guess you could say. And I'm still struggling a little. Most of my thoughts to cut are gone. But sometimes out of nowhere they come up and I have to try so hard to...
Masturbation, Porn and Cutting
I'm a man who's struggled with masturbation and porn my entire life. I was abused as a child. I have tried to break free from the addiction thousands of times it seems. At one point I made it to a year, but most of my attempts ended within a matter of daysweeks (sometimes hours). The problem is, recently I started cutting myself on the leg in...
It is harder than words can describe.
November 7th 2007 was the day I last cut. yay me! but I am just going to be honest recently everyday I hurt more and more, I thought things would get easier with time but I feel like I'm pushing a 20 ton boulder up a sheer cliff face. I am getting more tired every single day. Someone told me that it's been a year and that I must be "healed" now...
A test
I never knew that going to a hospital was preparing me for what was to come! I never dreamed that my life was going to change for ever in a few short months. I was just learning how to deal with my depression and suicidel thoughts. I didn't know that God had sent me into a depression so that I could get help and become a stronger person that...
I used to cut.
I used to cut, and I feel like a complete hypocrite b/c I have relapsed a few times and then stopped cutting, and I tell people about To Write Love On Her Arms and Heart Support, and what the organizations are about. I feel like if they found out I still do at times that I won't be able to help them.
hold on.
Hey Guys!
I wrote my story a long time ago called Sex, Weed and Bacardi,
and i'm doing fine now.
my parents finally let me back in.
my parents went to rehab after i brought them to church,
and my brother, i haven't seen him in awhile.
i've learned a lot from then,
keep holding on!
