Live Free 999 encourages everyone to speak openly about mental health. We have created a space to share the stories sent to us from our audience to inspire others to share their own journeys, creating a virtual story-telling chain of community and support.
Notice: Some of the stories shared may contain topics that could be emotionally triggering to some members of our audience. Topics such as suicide, self-harm, substance abuse, and trauma are discussed.
Leaving it here because I’m not comfortable with it anywhere else, and it’s still a struggle to let it out. I don’t feel loved. I struggle to find relationships let alone keep them. I do know there are people who would do anything for me but I can’t help but feel like it’s for reasons other than loyalty or our
Like most of us here, brought together through Jarad’s music. I’ve been going through an extremely distressing and turbulent few years in my life. Feels like I’ve been sleepwalking the last 6 years of my life, ever since graduating high school. Since then, I’ve graduated from college, gotten a decent corporate job, gotten married to the most beautiful woman in
Hello, my name is Maximus. Every day I’m battling suicide and substance abuse. I’ve been abusing drugs since I was in 5th grade and I’m now just trying to get my life on track. I’m 18 years old and it has really messed up my mind from weed, alcohol, pills and nicotine. Today I’m trying to get myself into rehab
Found this website cuz the end of the HBO doc had it tagged, not sure this is a success story, but I want to share. I have been on a long mental health journey, collected some expensive addictions along the way, and still have no idea what is goin on. I listen to Juice and I can hear some of
Growing up at a young age, my life was very well it wasn’t too long ago to when I was constantly unhappy or felt alone. I never really was the type of person to show my emotions, so nowadays when I talk to people, I feel like they’ll take advantage of me showing a softer side so I always kept
I’m 25, I remember being a sad kid and I was really alone. When I was 13 I started having panic attacks. I’ve been on medication for depression and anxiety since i was 17. I’ve always been really intense with my feelings. I never knew how to deal with all my bad feelings and bad thoughts… I gave up a
My name is James, and I’m a recovering heroin addict. I spent many of my years in active addiction, using many different drugs. However, once I tried heroin everything else stopped. My main focus was getting high to numb the pain, help with my depression, and to feel normal. I ended up having a beautiful little girl, and have spent
Throughout my 17 years of life, I’ve dealt with so much, whether it’s my abusive stepfather laying hands on my mother, My 2 younger brothers and I all going through kidney cancer due to a genetic trait, my biological father becoming mentally ill, heartbreaks, going from an AP Student to a dropout. It has all torn me up, and sometimes
I’m Italian and from Venice. Whoever is reading this I hope that you have a wonderful day and a beautiful life. You are the best flower in this wrld. The reason that I’m here now is to tell you about a period where I had depression and I fought very hard to get out of it. I was lonely, I
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