These are the voices of teens who have reached out for help instead of giving up on life.

The Light Is Turned Off​



I feel there is nobody to talk to. I have a couple of friends, but I don't want to tell them the problems in my life. My parents I don't want to tell because I don't want them to worry. I have thought about committing suicide, even though it would end my pain, it would cause others the same amount that I had.​

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When people say there is always light at the end of the tunnel, I feel that the light has been turned off and sometimes I should just give up, and stop looking for the light. My main problem is school. school is like a jail to me. I wake up crying every morning because I know I have to go back.​

I cry myself to sleep some nights, knowing the next day I will have to go to the jail which I can't avoid. Someday I know I will be happy again, but right now I am so sad , alone and lost. The only person I talk to is my best friend who I have known for 10 years. We only get to see each other once a year, which is hard because I miss her everyday. She moved away 4 years ago. I hope this wasn't to long. Thank you

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I've been through crap my entire life. I've been sexually abused by my older brother when I was little. My birth mom and dad walked out of my life, and then I lost my adoptive mom who I was very close too. I was bullied. I have been pushed out of the house more then once.  My adoptive dad called my birth mom, for me to live with her because he didn't want me there any more.

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My birth mom is constantly saying how much of a burden I am, and how much  space I take up of her and her boyfriends time. I have been kicked out from her more t hen once so she can have her time with him and my little brother. It's like I'm not even a daughter, or a person. It's like I'm a waste of space. I feel alone, and empty. I have gone to church, and groups, and nothing has helped.

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All my life, I've dealt with so much.. I'm raising myself, and have been for a while now. My adoptive dad is there to talk, but he's getting married and needs his house for him and his wife and I'm respecting that. He's a great father, but I don't know what to do. I've tried committing suicide, and so much more... Please help!.    

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​Pain Hurts So Bad​



Hi. I'm here writing this because I feel like I need to end my life. I hate breathing sometimes, its hard to want to go on. Even though I have a good job that depends on me and my loving family that cares about me. I don't know what to do I have an eating disorder and I hate the way my body looks, I'm so fat and living an unhealthy lifestyle of constantly eating all time...sometimes I even throw it up.

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I've had self harm problems and I've attempted suicide way too many times to remember and I have thoughts about it a lot just recently now. I feel like this is my life and this is how it will be unless I end it. I'm afraid of being happy because each time I'm happy even for a little while something else happens and I'm right back here.

Stuck! wanting to die and just never come back. But then the good things I have haunt me and are making me stay even though the pain I'm in hurts so bad. SO LOST AND CONFUSED. Please help!  ​