It started in year 7, I was short and overweight and had a lisp. I know, haha. My sisters were...

Growing up I had an abusive father which my mum, two sisters and myself moved away from. It was like...

I'm 14, and for about 5-10 years, my mother has abused me, both mentally and physically. I remeber she would...

Part of the reason that I’m writing is because I know in myself that I’m not going to make any...

It’s not something you plan for or even expect, or it wasn’t that way for me anyway. It came out...

It started in year 9. I had just gotten a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school. Everything was going fine...

I've always had a perfect life; family and friends always there. I was always smiling and happy. I...

When I was five years old, my dad hit my mum. I don’t remember much of it, except that my...

When I was three/four years old, I was sexually abused by a family friend at his home. This went on...

One of them, the 'alpha', so to speak, punctuated her insults and screams with hits across my face. I ended...

What can I say? I had a perfect upbringing, which included perfect friends, perfect family and a perfect house. And...

For 3yrs I suffered from depression, anxiety, panic disorder, self-harm, all of which I thought I could fix by finding...

My sister had substance abuse issues and I shared a room with her. She was physically abusive and blackmailed me...

My addiction, anxiety, and depression saved me from the traumas in my life. I started smoking weed and drinking when...

When I was 8 years old my father used to touch me and it got to the point where i...

It is only this year also that I found out I've had these since I was 7. My...

My parents are happily together, my childhood is fine. In a lot of cases, I'm lucky. And that's the thing...

This might come a shock to people who know me but i was raped when i was 13 by a...

I don't know exactly when I developed depression, but I think it's something that has been with me for a...

Even though I was achieving good grades at university I began to withdraw socially and worry excessively over my grades....

My story starts off... I never thought that I would have depression, but after I was taken off...

I know what you think: yeah, yeah, another person trying to relate to what I'm going through, but really my...

Every day for almost 10 years I would imagine my loved ones dying, me dying and failing at life....

I found it hard to do school work and felt like I had no friends and the friends I did...