I am not completely sure if this even counts, or if my story will even make it on your page but I felt like it would be a good thing for others to hear.
It was basically a lifetime that led up to this, but it started going downhill in 8th grade for me. In 7th grade I came to a new private school and figured I could become someone that people would like, I could start over and create this wonderful life for myself. But I realized when I went into my 8th grade year, that you can't pretend to be someone else and expect to come out well on the other end. All my many friends I had made deserted me, and I retreated into myself. I was alone and broken and I had lost myself. The depression slowly got worse throughout the months of loneliness, and I became my own bully. I would constantly tell myself things I felt I was rather deserving of. That I was worthless, and that I deserved to die. I felt like a burden to everyone, and became even more lost than I had been the previous year. I let myself go numb and embraced emptiness. The darkness was my dwelling place and it got to the point where I was used to that safe wall I had built up for myself. To the point where I stopped letting other people in, well.. I can't say they really tried very hard to do that.
Then by 9th grade I had gotten so good at pretending that I didn't realize how broken I had become, always a second away from shattering. Then I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and began to have frequent anxiety attacks that would trigger at any moment. I was always an overthinker, but now I had a constant reminder about how terribly worthless I was, my brain attacks itself, and I could never think straight. I hated myself so much, and everything about my life. I didn't believe anything others around me did, I felt like a living lie, and I kept attacking myself until I became nothing.
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Non-FictionBullying is a very serious issue that effects the lives of many. I hope that by many of us sharing our personal stories, it will not only help victims realize that they are not alone, but also help bullies realize how strongly their actions and word...