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  • a Headspace user

    Well I was born into a family that had depression in its...

    Well in primary school, life was a breeze. I loved it. In grade 8, I had good grades, heaps of...

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  • a Headspace user

    My story began two years ago when, after an online survey and...

    Following a fall out with my father and his wife and my (then about 2 year old) half-brother and a...

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  • Madalyn, 15, NSW

    Well, I guess I should start with my name. My name is...

    I've known about my sexuality for a long time, since I was in year seven--blame sex-ed--, but I never came...

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  • hannah, 18, NSW

    hello my name is hannah, im 18 years old and im...

    I have been working at my job for months and they have driven me to breaking point i now have...

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  • Georgia, 14, SA

    I walked into High School feeling confident, I thought I had dealt...

    I was badly bullied all through Primary School, and when I graduated Primary School I was excited to start fresh...

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  • Lucy, 20, NSW

    Always left questioning why..

    I was diagnosed with depression at 13 years old, after my friends at school had noticed I had been cutting...

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  • amal marina, 22, NSW

    I suffered depression for 6 years but I no longer have it...

    my story is that i suffered depression for about 6 years i got so down in the dumps to the...

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  • Kristen, 18, NSW

    I was only a little girl, i had so many plans for...

    I was 14 years old, it was my best friends dad. He sexually assaulted me at her home. I had...

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  • Samantha, 24, SA

    When I was about 5, my parents split up. My mother met...

    Our mother eventually stopped my brother and I from seeing our father, and she still stayed with the boyfriend who...

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  • Tegan, 22, QLD

    Child of addiction

    I love it how when they ask for 'your story' and it's a matter of where too begin i guess?...

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  • Anna, 25, NSW

    I have suffered depreesion since i was 16 years old has i...

    I was first dignosed with depression at the age of 16 which was only mild but it was still a...

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  • Georgia, 22, TAS

    I never worried about anything when I was child. I was...

    We had returned from a family barbeque at a friend's place. It was so much fun. They had...

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  • Frankie, 19, NSW

    I became suicidal because I both loved and hated my Mum.

    My name is Frankie and I am a 19-year-old female survivor of parental abuse. It wasn't until I was...

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  • a Headspace user

    I was always a shy kid.

    I was the kid in class that never put their hand up to answer a question and started to sweat...

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  • Olivia, 21, VIC

    I know you want answers but what is the right answer? There...

    i know what you're thinking, yeah yeah another person trying to relate to what i'm going through. But really my...

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  • Hannah, 18, NSW

    Hi im 18 and i have Aspeger, Bulimia and Anxiety. I am...

    Whne i started high school i was diagnosed with Aspeger and Anxiety. I would be constantly vomiting and freaking out...

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  • Taylor, 18, SA

    she think's if she steps out of the sun, she'll step out...

    Three day's before my 13th birthday i suffered with a quite serious brain aneurysm, i simply passed out and woke...

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  • Mikaela, 15, ACT

    Losing my Dad was the hardest thing in life I have ever...

    It was the beginning of 2010, Mum and Dad were still having their occasional fights, but they started to get...

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  • Erin, 16, ACT

    terrible couple of months..

    It all started on Christmas day 2005, when I found out that my father, had cancer. Bone cancer. I was...

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  • Anna, 14, NSW

    What a Year...

    It all started on the 25th of October. This is 2 days after my birthday. My Aunty started to get...

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  • Tenille, 18, SA

    My paranoia caused mini panic attacks and almost lost me my boyfriend.

    I've been with my boyfriend for over a year now and it's been great. But, for a while there, it...

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  • heather, 21, NSW

    a day in the life of multi mental illness... its like a...

    5 years ago i was diagnosed with bulimia nervosa. A disease which provided me with the relief of stress, anxiety,...

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  • Alissa, 13, VIC

    I couldnt fit in, no matter how hard i tried.

    It started when i was in prep. A girl, decided she hated me, because my hair was red, and she...

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  • Tashi, 13, NSW

    I Suffer From Depression, Alcohol And Drug Abuse

    When I was 10 and a half, I was a bit of a trouble maker and got into trouble every...

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  • Lavinia, 14, WA

    I learned not to trust my best friend

    Charlotte and I are best friends. We were like sisters. We would tell each other everything, we would do everything...

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