My Depression Story - Mental Health Awareness Week 2017
To this day, I am still not 100% sure what triggered my depression (if anything), but what I do know is that it is there with me all the time. In lieu of it being Mental Health Awareness week this week, I felt like I would write up a little about my own personal experiences living with a mental health issue so this may not be the same experiences that every other person has. My earliest memory which links to my depression came when I was in my primary school age, so not even turning 13. I was experiencing a lot of bullying surrounding my sexuality and it always managed to get the better of me. One day I was in my sister's room and was on her bed, I was really feeling upset and alone at the time and went and hide under the covers where I tried to strangle myself so it could all end. As you can tell it didn't get very far as I am still here to talk about it now. Skip ahead a few years, so I went to high school and was doing reasonably well academically, but again the bu...