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.
I started using a long time ago. I grew up around drugs and things of that sort. I had certain tendencies that would trigger my urge to use. Through will and effort, I am 5 months sober as of now. I can confidently say Juice’s music helped me accomplish this. Whether it be from the songs themselves, or his story,
Since I was young, my twin brother and I were abused by our stepfather. Our mom got cancer, and it only worsened. It was a battle between trying to stay out of depression while being abused, caring for our mother, and Mom being on a constant teeter-totter between life and death. In 2019, at the ages of 15, our mother
Hi, I’m Faith. Have you ever felt like your whole world was not your own? You simply lived inside of a play of unfortunate events? Wondered when would the story get better? I’m a single mother who overcame abuse at a young age, being assaulted as an adult, and facing judgement at every turn. The one thing that kept me
Jarad saved me from suicide, soon if I hadn’t listened to his music, his story, himself, I would have done it. I was at the bottom of the abyss and I only listened to his music because I had lost interest in everything, I was apathetic and didn’t want to eat anything, and he lifted me up. It was only
I was bullied all my life. Resorted to drugs and self harm. And I never spoke about it. I would turn up to school on no sleep and off my face. I wasn’t myself. I then od’ed and was hospitalized. I got out of hospital and was took out of school I thought this was normal for my age and
Hello beautiful lost souls. I struggle with bi-polar, depression, and anxiety. Since I was very little, I noticed I was a depressed child. I suffered a lot of emotional, verbal, physical and mental abuse. I started drinking and popping pills at the age of 10. I fell into heavy hard-core addiction at the age of 22. My addiction made my
I moved to another country for university. Everything in my life back home seemed to be falling apart and on top of that I had to learn to live on my own, take care of myself and manage a very heavy program and deal with my recently diagnosed ADHD. I lost 20 pounds from starving myself, had a suicide note
Growing up I had it tough, won’t get into detail or disorders, but my freshman year I was a bottle a night drinker, sophomore year I caught my first felony, junior year my second; right now I’m pulling myself outta that place slowly, heading into my senior year with great gym progress, healthy as can be, enlisting in the marines,
Hi, my name’s Casey, and over the last 5 years or so, I have been struggling with depression, anxiety, substance abuse and feeling like a misfit. Ever since I was 13, Juice’s music has helped me in such a way I didn’t even know was possible. Towards the end of 2021, I tried to take my own life by taking a
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