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.
Hello, Thank you for taking the time to read. I grew up in a single parent home. (Mother) My dad was into harder street drugs and abandoned his family. God bless my mother, she provided and ensured that my two brothers and I would live as “normal” of a life as possible. Unfortunately, as amazing as my mother was and
In 2020 I was 11. I started smoking to deal with the stress of the pandemic. Once I got back to school it became a social thing for me to smoke with friends. I lost touch with my real friends and started hanging out with people who only wanted me because I had drugs. It put things into perspective and
Hello, my name is Destiny and I am 25 years old, I have a seven-year-old daughter, and I have been struggling with mental illness and addiction issues for a long time now. I have gotten in the past and stayed clean for eight months and then relapse and almost died twice. My drug of choice is fentanyl. I started with
My name is Taylor. I work as a waitress at a club, and I went in on my birthday to work. I was supposed to have friends waiting on the go ahead to come and help celebrate with me; instead, I had one of the most overwhelming anxiety attacks I’ve had in a while. I called my best friend, and
I grew up as a kid with ADHD, and also for the longest time hid part of myself. I am LGBTQ. I was never really able to cope with my neurodivergence properly until I got much older, I am 23 years old now. If anything from this I want you all to take from this that you can make it
I’ve struggled with so much. I’ve got bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, adhd, ocd this list just keeps growing too. I was searching for some kind of relief or a breath of fresh air so I found Vyvanse and that lead me to oxycodone and then I continued to just try and end my life slowly with the oxy’s and that
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’m only thirteen years old and I started using drugs at nine because I lost my best friend (uncle). I’ve been around drugs about my whole life. My mom died two years after my uncle and that’s when I stole all of her other drugs she had. I used those drugs then I started smoking more than usual. I didn’t
I’ve never really thought that I would ever fit in anywhere and to be honest I’m not really sure if I even fit in here because I don’t know if this applies to anyone, but the thing is I’ve been going through a heartbreak and she’s just cutting me deeper with every week that goes by and I’ve been thinking
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