If you had asked me three years ago where I would be now, I couldn’t have told you. I probably would have said something like “Dead, probably” in jest but inside I believed it.
I was seventeen and in a bad place. Years of physical and emotional bullying from peers and my parents had worn me down and broken me. I had no friends, bad grades. I was binge eating, smoking weed, getting drunk. My body was a mess from cigarette burns and self harm scars. I was in a bad way and I thought my life was over. Over a series of weeks, I scrambled […]