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.
It started in 1998 I was born, and I believe I was put on this planet for reason. In 1999 my mother was convicted on Second Degree murder and sentenced to 50 years. I was only 1yo it’s so hard to explain what I had to go through. My life was flipped upside down from the start. My father’s side
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
My story, it’s very similar to Jarad’s at certain things in his life. I was brought up in a normal family with decently well-paid parents, but we still lived in the ghetto. Pretty early in my teens we noticed I got ADD with concentration problems. Including depression with social anxiety. At the age of 12-13 I was put on “medical
Currently in high school, I struggle with extreme bouts of depression, I get anxiety and can’t sleep at all at night. Even with my best friend by my side, I feel alone all the time. Sometimes it really does feel like these drugs I do are my only true friends. It’s so hard, with my grandparents (I don’t live with
Hey, I am Aminata! I’m currently 16 years old, battling depression and psychosis and the days just don’t get easier unfortunately. I was diagnosed with having depression and psychosis at 14, never have I ever thought I would go through any sort of mental issues, but I guess I was wrong. I developed depression from being treated horribly at school,
I’m currently 25 years old. I remember when I was 12 my mom got diagnosed with cancer and it made my whole world go crashing down. I was rebellious, depressed and had really bad anxiety. Which lead me to popping pills, smoking weed, and drinking. My mom ended up passing away when I was 15 and that broke me even more.
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
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