Stopmentalhealthstigma Stories

❝She was pain in the form of the one who broke his heart.❞ All rights reserved. @ o p t i c a l i t y | 2017

Love brought Nathan Fritz and Blake Digswell together when Blake moves to San Francisco to live with her brother. They fell quickly, head first, believing that love and only love could conquer everything. But as things begin to go downhill, circumstance pays Nathan and Blake no favours when things begin to derail, and their belief that love conquers all is put to a test wherein they both come to realise that perhaps their affection cannot triumph over everything. When tragedy picks its victims, the timing's never perfect - and it never ends well for anyone.

A Wattpad Featured Story! Others call her troublemaker, antagonist, bully, abuser, and even my mother. But I no longer can call her my mom. This is the story why. This is a non-fiction book. All events are 100% true from my life. The writing style is mixed. All chapters are short. A couple are written in easy to read prose, freestyle. The rest of the chapters by necessity are more narrative in style, written in first person. By writing this it is helping me to stop nightmares, and to finally feel free. I also wanted to write this to help others.

'Why do we lie to ourselves and those around us? It's common for people to say only parts of the truth. Parts that they feel are acceptable or that they believe people wish to hear, concealing the full truth behind closed doors. "I'm fine" is the most common lie told, why? Why is a lie that reflects our emotions, so often used? ...' Natalie Evans is an ordinary seventeen year old girl, known for her cheerful personality and bright smile. However, not all that glitters is gold. Haunted by the memories of her past, Natalie struggles to overcome her psychological turmoil. Using an alter ego, within a secret Instagram account, she attempts to find a place of belonging; by helping others who are suffering from depression. All the while, dealing with issues involving home, school and the boy with secrets of his own, who she feels drawn to, as if by an invisible force. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: This book contains sensitive, social topics including anxiety, depression and self-harm. Please abstain from reading, if you find any of these topics disturbing or triggering.

*Trigger Warning* Scars. Pain. Fear. Sadness. Things we all have. The bad things in life, the negative things. For some people, it's worse. Their scars run deeper. Their pain is sharper. Their fear never ends. Their sadness controls them. One day, a group of these people meet. All teens, all with something "wrong" with them. As they listen, they discover that they are not alone. It all starts with one girl who says a few words and sets everything in motion. This is them. The broken, the lost, the weary and ignored. And this is their story. Characters: Scarlett (Letty) Moore by @siennafreya Dante by @TrinityAndBeyond Mara by @-girlsandgirls Cara Henelly by @filiochta Blythe Rose and Emrys (Rys) Allister by @Elysianne Rose Dianne by @The_Scary_Dinosaur Keifra (Fira) and Julie (Jules) by @fandom_crazy_797 Dakota by @VladimirTodd

"You trusted someone, and in a world like ours that was your biggest mistake." In the state between the calm and the storm, six witches will be chosen to protect, not just their kind, but their secret too. Little do they know, that in the midst of the chaos, loss and betrayal is inevitable.

"I wonder if it's possible to lose myself if I never knew really knew who I was to start with." [a short story dealing with bipolar]

What has pushed you to believe taking your life is the answer? Are you really going to do it? What happens when death isn't as peaceful as you expected? What if a Reaper gives you something of an ultimatum? Witness first-hand what your death has brought to those around you, or remain wandering as a lost soul until you reach the point of insanity. "You can take your life, but what about the people around you? Aren't you taking theirs too?" Emily nearly laughed again, the idea was so ridiculous, but when she went to answer... she found she couldn't respond. What happens to them? ____________________ Author's Note: If you're looking for a sign not to kill yourself, this is it. [The Fighter's Series - Book 1] Formerly titled: Emily's Suicide Highest Ranking: #1 Paranormal

BOOK TWO OF THE SCARLETT CHRONICLES | After being kidnapped as a young child, seventeen year old Scarlett Grey found her way home to her family. For months, she struggled to find a balance between the girl she'd left behind and the girl she had become. But she did. She had a family, she made friends, she fell in love, and she was finally happy. That is, until she lost the most important person in her life to a merciless disease: her beloved mother. She's completely fallen apart. One by one, she shut out the people closest to her: her father, her best friends, and even her boyfriend. And as a result, she's left to face the man who stole her innocence away all those years ago, completely alone. Can Scarlett once again escape the man who took away so many years of her life? And, most importantly, can she learn to love herself in spite of the tremendous losses she's known? • Please be advised this story contains mature and sensitive themes such as abuse, scenes involving post traumatic stress disorder and severe anxiety, as well as some (okay quite a bit of) explicit language. Cover by yours truly and the wonderful @ Tayxwriter Highest Rank: #134 in Teen Fiction (2018/04/28) Copyright © Ashley Marie

After being afflicted with depression at an early age, 17-year-old Mae finds a way to cope through diary exchanges with her best friend. Using an old leather-bound journal to jot down every instance of pressure, joy, and bitter strife, even this solace seems to be no match for constant break downs. Mae thinks no one notices when she stifles tears in the back of art class. But someone does. Maybe it's high time Mae realizes that even though crying sucks when someone else sees it, that's all the more reason they deserve to know why.

poems, quotes, diary entires, and short stories on depression

"I just want you to know that I love you, and that will never change. I just want you to know that even if you don't remember me, I will always remember you." I stood there for a few more minutes looking at her grave, wishing she could actually hear the words I was saying. I didn't know what else I was supposed to do or say so I walked back to my car. And as I was walking, I could have sworn I heard my grandmother's voice say, "I love you too, Marina." Marina's grandmother passed away due to dementia, but Marina is determined that no one will ever forget Wren Jennings, even if dementia took the memories from Wren. tysm to the amazing @RebellionOfALifetime for the cover

// Winner in the Starstruck Awards 2017 and the Wing Awards 2017// "Everyone's a little broken, that's how you let the light in." Faith Davis' freshman year in college was supposed to be a new start, a time to flourish. Instead, she came out of it barely holding it together. A year and a half later, she's still scarred by the events that occurred. But what happens when her best friend's marriage throws her into the path of Noah Johnson. His optimism and encouragement cuts through her own cloud of pain, but nobody's perfect, and Noah has his own demons to battle. Can they both help each other out of the past, or will they drown in the waves of their own troubles.

A bunch of poems That might not even be poems Just my thoughts Most of it doesn't make sense But then neither does my mind

❝She's one of those girls you just can't walk away from. One of those girls you will never forget, no matter how hard you might try.❞ BOOK ONE OF THE SCARLETT CHRONICLES | After being kidnapped as a young child, seventeen year old Scarlett Grey is finally returned to her family. She is thrown into her old life and expected to forget her past and move on as the girl she once was. Scarlett wants nothing more than to be a normal teenage girl: make friends, get good grades and blend in. That is, until she's torn between who she once was, who she is expected to be and who she is becoming. As old friends pull her one way, new friends another, and buried secrets threaten everything she has come to believe, will Scarlett get caught up in the torrents of teenage drama? Or will the consequences of her past be too much for her to handle? |Winner of the 2017 Chance Awards| • Inspired by the Grey's Anatomy episode entitled "The Girl With No Name". Please be advised this story contains mature and sensitive themes such as abuse, scenes involving post traumatic stress disorder and severe anxiety, as well as some (okay quite a bit of) explicit language. Cover by yours truly, approved by @Tayxwriter Highest Rank: #61 in Teen Fiction (2018/05/09) Copyright © Ashley Marie

No one stays the same forever. That's a lesson that Zoey Newman knew very well. After being falsely imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit, Zoe comes out a different person. Someone who doesn't believe in happy endings and Prince Charming's. Forced to return to the place where it all started, Zoe must confront her past demons if she wants a chance to move on. Thomas Morgan was just a regular brown-haired boy with a hidden smile. Seemingly ordinary, no one looked past his brooding personality to see that he might just be suffering too. When Thomas and Zoey meet each other by chance, they learn things that could change their lives forever. With time, it may be possible for them to cure each others sadness. Maybe, just maybe, they'll realize that you don't have to fake happiness to survive. You just have to have the right person. highest rank- #148 (4/29/16) |Completed 12//30//16|

Morrtiis has always been known for her unstable behavior, and hallucinations. Her abnormal behavior gets in the way of making friends. Dare to travel with Morrtiis through her journey to complete utter insanity...? ⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵⤵ ---TEASER--- I awoke to a starless sky, empty, empty like my soul, "The stars are hiding," I sighed. I swear I had died, but I'm still alive, "Am I alive..." I thought to myself while laying on the brown dirt as if it were my bed, my submission to the dreamlike reality. The tombstones crowded me; death had transformed me, had been the only thing to comfort me in the past couple days to know I am alive, that I'm real, I had died with them. My feelings my visions and emotions like a snowstorm inside me, had fogged my whole being with fright. But now, thanks to Veronica, I had a clear view over what I have become. The earth shivered as I walked through the dark serenity,, the grass padding my dragged steps toward I don't know where. My black formal dress dragged behind me like a shadow. I felt nothing; I wasn't breathing, no pulse. I step on glass, no blood, no pain, no tears... No fears... nothing to worry about except what to do next, and I already knew that. I am nothing, Yet I am standing, I am dead, Yet I am something... Of all who this could happen to, and it's me. It is me. The death-bringer. I am in control. I crave the blood, Their helpless expression of a fate they are aware that I control The pain, The tears, Everything that I can't have now. I am dammed and never to die. I know my purpose is to make people feel what I can not.

A glimpse into the minds of those who suffer from trauma, anxiety and seclusion. It is very important to me that awareness about mental health is spread, thus the reason for this short story. A battle against all the negative aspects of your mind is sometimes the most difficult battle to overcome, and not many people are aware of that. I hope this story sheds some light on what trauma, anxiety that can lead to depression can do to people, and at the end, how to move past the worst.

Everything we see, isn't what's really there. Everything and everyone looks completely different and no one knows this, yet. This one girl who finds out after years of weird vision changes, finally learns and is convinced she can show everyone. The only problem is, who's going to believe the therapeutic girl? I just want to let you know that this book also contains some depression and suicidal thoughts. Just thought I'd let you know.

The Mental Health Epidemic has been part of our society and our whole universe for decades and yet many of us (not a huge fraction of the whole world) are working on breaking the stigma around the epidemic, spreading awareness and light to the subject, promoting positive mental health, sharing all our stories tied to the issue and overall helping the rest of the society contributing to setting all those suffering and living with mental illness (in silence and those in the working process of speaking up about their illness overall the whole epidemic) free of the nasty yet deadly stigma and discrimination linked to the issue. This issue is in the process of moving forward and improving this Epidemic for a greater result in the world but we all still have a long way to go. We have accomplished a small achievement of having more of society viewing depression and anxiety disorder not taboo as seen before, but still others like schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder plus many others still are still being seen as taboo. As a weakness, a fault in someone, failure, etc. We need to continue our parts in this moment with solving this huge, yet ever so important Epidemic to help save others from suicide, and severe medical issues. Along with being silenced by the stigma and discrimination around the issue itself. People don't realise how much harm they are doing with the words they choose when speaking to their loved ones, friends, co-workers until it's either too late or things that involve taking big risks (which in cases like this, are very well supported and wise; along with being helpful with making change in this issue without forcing or demanding others to view the issue/illnesses in a postive light. And so this book is here (send me a message if you want your stories, articles, thoughts included here) to inspire, encourage others that they are not alone and that life gets better. It just happens gradually, not overnight.