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It does get better: A message to you from a survivor
Hello everyone. I started using this site in February of 2008, and at that time I was a very unhappy person. I was also a serious self harmer. I felt alone and depressed and I thought that it would never get any better. I felt unwanted, unappreciated and unloved, and I felt as though no one would care if I was gone.
Now, with over 3 and a half years of no scars, I want to tell you all that it does get better.
I am happy now. I live with my boyfriend who I love very much. He knows about my past and is a very supportive person. I am at university training to be a primary school teacher, something of which I am extremely passionate about. I have friends, and I am a lot more positive about my future.
Sure, I've had my days where I have been depressed, upset and felt unloved, just as I had when I was unhappy, but I respond to it so much more differently now. I cry, I scream, I get angry, I talk about it... but I don't hurt myself. Reading the messages from those dark times just don't sound like me. They are an entirely different person. I am a new person now.
I've been to counselling about my problems, as I have often felt alone, even when I was free from self harm. This has helped me tackle my problems so much better.
So to all of you, I know how you feel. I know where you are, I've been where you are. There is a light at the end of that dark tunnel of depression.
If any of you need advice, want to hear more about my story, or just need to talk, then PM me. I will be more than happy to talk.
Don't give up. It will get better.
Last edited by KissesLikeAPrototype : 13-11-2011 at 07:07 AM.
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I can only hope I can get to where you are someday...very inspiring.
