The Cancer Free Me: Teen/Adult Advice by Alicia Wade

Chapter 2

Now you may think my years in 1st and 2nd grade were fun, right? Wrong! Yes maybe 1st grade was okay, but 2nd grade is when the bullying started. That year was okay cause it never got to me. I remember the first day when I started getting bullied. It didn't get to me at first cause I didn't know what it was or what it meant. So, back then I ignored it. It's when I got into 3rd grade I knew what bullying was.

3rd grade wasn't that bad. Yeah I started to have just a little bit of depression. Not a lot. It didn't fully kick in until like middle of 4th grade, maybe late 4th. It didn't get really bad until 5th grade.

Depression is a hard thing to deal with. Let me tell you. I started self harm in 4th grade. I honestly thought it would help. It didn't. It hurt. So, I stopped. To be honest, it was easy. I'll tell you more about self harm and suicide in the next chapter.

Now 5th grade. This is when the bullying started to get worse. I couldn't ignore it. It was hard. I would go home crying day by day. I did think of suicide, but I never attempted it. I never attempted it because I was very scared to attempt suicide.