Earth’s Curse – My Story

Hi guys, I’m Declan and obviously I’m new here and I thought I’d introduce myself:

I was born into a stable family. I have loving parents that care for me. Wanna know the weird thing? I’m unhappy. Mhmm, unhappy with life but I have parents who love me. That’s because I haven’t talked about my school life:

So skipping the cringeworthy moments I had in prep to grade 6. Grade 7 was when I began experiencing bullying. It was nothing physical, I used to get teased a lot because of my name. Now, one of my flaws as a human being is that  I won’t tell anyone anything bad that’s happened, so I never really did anything about the situation. I let it go on and get to me because I was pathetic enough not to tell anyone what was happening. Something else that happened at that time was that one of my “friends” said that he hated me so much while I was there, that had a huge effect on me as I came to the conclusion that so did everyone else.

By the time I got to Grade 8, things started worsening. I pretty much lost all my friends that I went to primary school with, the bullying got worse as this group of Grade 9 guys started shooting spitballs at me on the bus. I had also attempted suicide twice by self-strangulation. The bullying carried out nearly an entire year until someone had reported it and the bullies were expelled.

So Grade 9 comes around and I fall into a severe depression. The realisation that no-one liked me came back to haunt me for round 2. In that year (2011) I was also diagnosed with depression and anxiety, which would remain embedded in my mind for the next 3 years as I moved to a new school and gained/lost more friends. In Grade 11, I began self-harming.

I’m in Grade 12 now, I still experience depression, anxiety, and had suicidal thoughts. But yet I encourage other people to keep going through life because I want other people to be happy and I don’t even care about myself.

Thank you for reading.