Chemnotcharacter Stories

User-submitted stories about their own mental illnesses, their struggles with themselves and finding the strength to face it every day.

WINNER 2015 Wattys #JustWriteIt challenge. Oh my. What large teeth you have? "As you're pretty so be wise, wolves may lurk in every guise." Phobias; we all have them. Heights, Cats, men, women, crying children, Time. They take multiple annoying forms. Me; let's just say I could fill an encyclopedia. Hi; Cyra here. I'll go right ahead and tell you the moral of the story; never trust a stranger, even if it's only all in your head. The sweetest tongue most definitely has the sharpest tooth. Red Riding Hood has won a Watty. Thank you all.

"And honestly is that the only reason you loved me?" "Stop it! Don't you know you're the only reason I live?" ~5 Seconds of Summer fanfic~ Updated weekly (Sometimes more) | Book 1 in the Safety Pin series

© Kristen___ 2015 "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." -Winston Churchill Danika lived a simple life in a simple town with her two friends, Alex and Marleen, and her family. She was never the girl to get caught up in drama. And never the one to start it. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, things start to change. Unexpectedly, Alex doesn't show up to Danika's birthday party. No one knows where she's gone, or why. But will the birthday card that Alex left behind tell the story of how everything went wrong? When the police deliver heart-breaking news, Danika and Marleen team up with an unsuspected partner to find out what really happened to their friend. What they discover will change their lives forever. {journal format} {#NoMoreBullying}

At #chemnotcharacter, we encourage writers to explore characters suffering from a variety of mental illnesses. To promote this, we will be hosting a number of contests annually to spark awareness and spread the word. Check back regularly for details!

"She was like an open book written in a different language."

iBooks: https://itun.es/us/bgmNab Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/614633 [Published Under the Title 'Emily Was'] ~*~ a daughter who dived off a building and a mother trying to piece together why. Wattpad Version [V1] #ChemNotCharacter #EveryVoiceMatters #GiveRealAdvice #DepressionIsNotSadness

Nobody cares if you're hanging by a thread or trudging through life completely bruised and swollen. Nobody is going to stand by your side when the first devastating wave of a tsuanmi hits. Everybody staring in fascination at the beauty of destruction. They are awe-struck or they are caught up in their own delusional lives. They come after its over, when only broken fragments and missing pieces are left. You cant ever fully repair what has passed to the beyond because trust is an a major social issue no one talks about. You either a hollow sociopath or a sunken skeleton with disorders so who's going to take you in? Your blessed life has collapsed into the oblivion and the new one sprang straight up from the fiery pits of hell. You can't differentiate between reality and your dreams because both re equally bad if not slightly worse. You are waging a mental battle against an opponent you created. And in it all, you are surely ready to be institutionalized. Where everything is a fabrication. Every whisper a painful lie. Every sight a distortion. And every friendship a psychotic one. Can yousee beyond a real nightmare infested with hallucinations? Can you survive the pull and safety the drugs offer? Can you embrace the adventure of life and come out unscatted? -------------- ABYSS Asylum is built for the specially gifted and is home to some of the most dangerous beings to walk this world. Because imagination and creativity is the key to disaster. But it understands the indestructible and helps them to rise to the occasion. Contact us for more information WARNING: DARK HUMOR

An agglomeration of essays centralizing on humanism, the macrocosm, my prosaic adversity, and what it means to be alive. copyright © 2016

They said it was because of a lack of serotonin. (lower-case intentional)

Mental illness: a popular topic in fiction, an unpopular reality. Tips and guidelines for writing realistic characters suffering from MIs, written for and by Wattpad authors. [Trigger Warnings]

Recuperare. Graphic by @justlyd

in which Sophie bands together a group of mentally ill teens in order to show them that they're not alone //lowercase intended// highest ranking: #423 in short story 11/01/15 This story is part of the following amazing movements: #diverselit #freeyourbody #iamnotmymentalillness #stopbodyshaming #stopmentalhealthstigma

Lance Charleston always had his mind set on Sage Rae Wilson, who's been his crush for about three years. Even though they've talked a lot about personal issues and hang out, he wanted to be more than friends. With a bet and his crush on her, he would do anything to begin a relationship with her, even if it means losing the ones he blindly love most. [Started: 1 Dec 2016] [Finished: ???]

Paper is fragile, but if you fold it the right way, you can make it into something beautiful. #freementalillness #nomorescars #chemnotchracter

some use poetry as a means of expression, others to create art, and still others as a form of relief. yet, the purest intention behind a poem is none other than writing it simply to keep oneself alive.

"Life, Luke had decided, was colourless."