Hi, my name is Angelica Cuenca. I’m 17years old and I’ve been living with depression for about 6 years now. It’s started after I lost my best friend which is my mom from cancer. I stop believing in God because he was supposed to be the good but he took someone that I loved the most, someone that I could talk to no matter what. A week or so my sisters and I went to live with my mom’s parents which are my grandparents. I never wanted to lived with them but I had no choice my father was not fit to take care of us and himself. By the 6th grade a boy showed me how to burn myself with a eraser, so in other words I would harm myself but it was the only way for me to get the pain out. I stop trusting people, I stop opening up to people, I just closed myself off. By the 7th grade i could no longer feel better by burning myself so I would break my razors and use that to cut myself just so I could see the blood run down my arm. It hurt, but the pain wasn’t so bad. I would regret it by the next day but that didn’t stop me from doing it again. My grandparents found out saw the scars on my arms and with that they made my sisters and I go talk to someone every other Saturday. Being the little brat I am, I never said anything. They would ask me questions but I was silence the whole time. My grandparents and sisters would find me in my restroom hurting myself my grandma would always say she was going to call people to take me away. I was scared, hurting myself was the only way out of the pain I was going through. My older sister would say she would never let anyone take me, I cried even more cause I knew the pain I was causing them, I put them through a lot of shit but that still didn’t stop me. I did get better but that only lasted a year. My sophomore year I was so stressed with sports, homework, stuff going on at home, everything. Mu breaking point happened after I had a volleyball game things didn’t go to well. So when I got home I told my grandma I wasn’t hungry, and I went straight to my bathroom, I was texting one of my close friend telling her I can’t do this anymore that I’m don’t with all the bullshit, she knew what I was doing all my friends know about my cutting. Turned out her mom had called my grandma telling her what I was doing. Everyone in my family ran to my room, my old sister was the one to see the blood first, and I guess my grandma had enough with it. My grandma and old sister took me to a children’s hospital where they later took me to a mental hospital to help me with the cutting. I knew I needed help, I was just to scared to ever ask for it. Scared on what people would think of me. I shouldn’t have cared but I did. I was in the hospital for about 4 days cause the doctor thought I was okay and doing better, well I guess that’s not true. When I got back to school I lost some friends but that made me look at things differently maybe they won’t really my friends to began with. Junior year, I was up to 160 days without cutting, but that all went down hill I’m not sure what cause it. I guess I was just tired of things, or maybe the Beth of my grandpa finally caught up to me. My grandpa ended getting sick, when I wasn’t at school in the summer I would help my grandma out because it got to a point where my grandpa couldn’t do anything by himself. He dead three days after my birthday, people say it’s good think to be there when they past but really it’s not I can’t even step into my grandma’s room because that’s where he died at. I can’t even sit on a certain spot on the couch because he would sit there. I miss him, my dad was never really in my life, so my grandpa was like my father always there when I needed him. I cut myself again last night (December 8, 2015) everything is just coming back to me mainly the stress I can’t take it, I’m ready to just let go, I’m ready for death to just take me. Fuck everyone that says they are there for me or that say people care for you because I don’t care anymore I just want everything to be over with.
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Hey Angelica,
I am sorry it turned out this way.
But trust me when i say, that some people are actually there for you, they actually love you.
And please think like that, youre 17, youve got a wonderful life ahead of you. Youre playing on thr beaches of the ocean of life.
So dont do it.
Talk about it.
Share. Be it here on SP, or with your friends and family.
PS.
I know all that cus i used to cut a lot too, and i havent stopped yet. And also i am 17. And although i started cutting for a different reason, trust me when i say, i swear i know how you feel when you say noone cares.
I have plans for the future..at times I can’t wait to leave my house, but the fear I live with won’t let me do the things I do. I’m hurting in the outside the people around me think I’m fine that I’m better but really I’m not I’m falling apart
I lost my only grandma at 9 years old since my mom never knew her dad and her mom abondened her and i dont know what happened to my dads dad. But I loved my grandma im sure the way you loved your mom. The day she died I took it the hardest. I cried for 3 weeks and moved on until one night I had a dream i was with my grandmother in her room and there was a party outside her room. She told me to go in the closet and thats when i heard her door fly open and a man came in and stabbed her to death. All I heard were screams and the knife. I awoke after the closet door opened. I developed visual and hearing schyzophrenia to where everywhere I went I heard the screams and could see everything from the dream. I didnt go to school for 3 months for my safety. To this day every now and then its there but faint. I dont want to say im here for you or care. I want to tell you that the reason your doing these things to yourself is because your not letting go. I know because im struggling with it now. As long as you hold on to everything that happened in your past it will always be in your present. Recover and Live your life. Im 18 going into the Marines boot camp in 22 days and thats my way of moving on. Find out what you want out of your life and do it. Fuck everyone else that says different. You are the CEO of your life. Whatever you decide in the end falls on you not them. Stay strong.
I’m trying to forget it I am…but it’s the little things that get to me the most. For the past month I’ve been wearing long sleeves afraid that if I look at my scares I would think about why I harmed myself in the first place…I start to down myself then the cutting happens all over again. People say I can stop but I can’t maybe for a couple of days, weeks, months, but I will never really be able to stop unless something or someone comes into my life…
Hi Angelica
I started hurting myself when I was 14, in high school. I was depressed, even though everything in my life seemed wonderful. I was a model student, top of my grade. I started with just biting myself. Didn’t realise back then that it was SH. It escalated to cutting and burning. I haven’t really stopped, though I haven’t hurt myself for about 2 weeks. No one knows about it.
I lost someone too. My brother was killed in front of me by our neighbours, and it was all because of me. I carry the guilt with me everywhere I go. Family and other neighbours are not making me feel any better about it. The images of that day are with me always. I basically hate the 11th. I hate the no. 11. The day he died. 5 days after his 30th birthday.
There’s nothing I want more than to kill myself right now. But I have my family to think of.
Just recently stumbled upon SP. I don’t have anyone to talk to about the way I feel. This place has given me a chance to let out all that I feel. If not for SP, I’ll probably be dead by now.
We’re here and people on SP do listen.
You’re only 17. I was 17 a few years ago, and I wanted out of this world. I’ll be turning 22 in a few weeks (31 Dec). I don’t really know how that happened. I know what you’re going through. Can’t offer much but an ear. Maybe we can help each other with our losses and the pain.
I’m sorry about ur brother…I used to think it was my fault about my mom dying but it wasn’t the cancer took her away but I blame myself that I wasn’t there for her…and it was to late to fix things to take back everything I did…I’m just living with regret about everything I just can’t take it anymore.
Honestly not everyone needs someone to step in to change their life. I didnt and still dont. Im not saying you should but try taking your own steps first. Once you let someone in they become apart of your life which will effect your life either positive or negative. In out current world Its hard to even trust your family because everyone is trying to get their own because at the end of the day only you are gonna be in that casket alone. Start making your choices count because you only got so many until you one day run out. And who knows that either. For example, one thing i do daily to keep me mentally straight is every negative thing said or i say about me say 2 positive things. It helps I promise
Thanks, don’t take this the wrong way but you are s stranger to me but I can let out how I feel or what I’m going tho…I can’t even do that with my friends or family…so thank you
It’s not too late to turn your life around. You’re only 17 anyway. I sound like a major hypocrite right now, but, killing yourself isn’t really the answer to your guilt and regrets. I doubt it will even take it away.
Find a new way to cope with the urge to cut. Like, go for a run or something when you feel like it. I write about it instead of doing it. It has helped me. Focus on school. Look at the good times you shared with your mother. Think what she would say to you right this moment. I’m sure she loved you. Whatever may have happened, she doesn’t hold it against you.
I’m dealing with PTSD. I have flashbacks of the moment my brother was killed. I always dream of blood or killing something or someone. I still have school on top of that. I have my family, they are far from being united, and they don’t know what I’m dealing with, but hey… I’m taking it one day at a time. Heck, I’m pushing myself through every single hour.
We can fight this and get through it somehow.