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 struggled through my dad’s death at only 9 years old and that trauma led me to substance abuse and dependance and addiction. I just wanted to let you know it always gets better. I’m 3 months clean, I have the love of my life, and I have a job doing what i love, graffiti.
Hi. I’m Emma. I’m not that young, but I’m not that old either. It feels like I’m too young to be feeling the feels I been feeling, but I’m too old to cry. I’ve never shown my feelings to anybody. I don’t feel safe with it, I’ve never had anybody who understands. Everybody thinks my life is so perfect. I
I struggle with depression, PTSD, bipolar, and anxiety. For many years, these felt like harsh labels. It was a hard road of self-harm and therapies, not to mention my family situation. I heard Legends one day, and the captivating ability to sing, let alone rap, about his struggles really reached me. It felt like it showed me how I can
I’m going to share some of my struggles the past few years and how I cope on a daily basis. My depression, anxiety & eating disorder started when I was around 14/15; when I was in secondary school. I had always suffered since I was a little girl and always felt different and noticed I wasn’t as happy as other
Hello everyone, my experience with Anxiety and depression started at 14 years old. During COVID-19 I stayed in my room for so long that I lost all my social skills. During those times in my room I developed Anxiety and Depression, throughout time it was just getting worse and worse to a point where I now stay homeschooled even know
I am 20 years old and I was in a deep state of depression a couple years back when I was 16. My relationship with my mom started to go down the drain and we would fight and argue about everything. She said some hurtful things to me that I couldn’t stop thinking about and I used to cry at
Hi, This is going to be hard but this is my story. It starts at the age of 14. I got into a very abusive relationship for 5 years. I suffered all types of abuse. I was then at 19 diagnosed with anxiety and depression. Over the years I suffered more abuse from partners which led to my mental health
I don’t know where to start, I guess I’ll introduce me and my friend George for you. We’re 18, pretty much the same person. Listened to the same music, played the same video games, and even sometimes accidentally talked to the same girls. George was taken this past Sunday 9/4/22. Juice Wrld always gave us something to connect about, and
I’ve struggled with some anxiety and pretty severe depression since I was 12 years old (I turn 21 in a month). For years I hated myself and felt like I was nothing, wished that I was nothing and even tried to be nothing. It’s been some very dark years with even darker thoughts. At first, really the only thing that
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