So I have not been on here for a while, a combination of feeling like crap and back to school stress. But since back to school madness has stopped now I felt like I should come back.

Coming back to school this year has brought nothing but stress for a number of reasons. 1. This is my last year in formal education, I apply o go to university this year. 2. At the end of the last school year I had mocks and failed both maths and physics so I have had to change corses, now because of...

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TeenHelp Newsletter #114 - September 24th 2019 - http://www.teenhelp.org

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I've been seeing a lot of doctors lately for a lot of different things, and none of them are really giving me any answers. It started last fall and has been a nonstop issue ever since.

Some of my providers have been concerned about my tachycardia, or too fast heart rate. I saw a cardiologist who had me on a monitor and said it's all anxiety, so I'm on a new medication that lowers the heart rate and also can have added benefits of helping me with my anxiety and helping prevent some...

Almost nobody knows how to communicate
this topic properly in schools.

We have all these school assemblies, anti-bullying
rallies, speakers who talk about the topic, even
films depicting how bad bullying can be.

However, even after all the media and the
talks we attend to, it’s still a problem.

When we see something wrong, particularly
someone getting picked on, we look the other
way and just pretend it didn’t...

I completely relate to where you’re coming from.

Back then, I used to look to other people, people
who I thought would be my friends for life, tell me
what I’m worth. When I was in a long-distance
relationship with someone for 4 years, I was looking
for my partner at the time to tell me what I’m worth.

I realized as time went on though…

It’s a complete error in judgment.

No one can tell you what you’re worth....

Now let me explain what I mean here:

While I can’t tell you my whole entire life
story in a single piece of writing, I can share
with you some synopsis form of it.

So if you’ve never looked at my profile before
or read any of my earlier blog entries long
before I started writing these inspirational writings,
I was pretty much a complicated mess.

I had people who I once called my best friends,
only to find out...

Here’s what’s so fascinating to me now
that I’ve spent time bettering myself and
continue to work on my mindset every day:

I see so many people holler a cry for help,
complaining about their problems, especially
how they’re always telling a tale of some tragedy
pretty much the entire time, and how they
have no friends and want friends.

Yet, when they come to a place such as
this very website you’re on right now and...

I understand how tough it must be for you,
losing the friend you were close with, or even
that romantic partner you were with.

Whatever was the reason why, regardless, I want
to share this with you, and although this might be a
message you don’t want to hear, I share this with you
because if you open your mind and hear me out, this
can be one of the most valuable lessons you’ll ever learn:

Don’t depend on someone wholeheartedly....

For 6 years I have been battling self-harm, relapsing every couple of months. It was never something I thought I would turn to but is what I ended up using. In the past year, I have been working on myself more but the self-harming habit was one I could not get rid of. At a Christian camp called Soul Survivor this year I was praying about it and felt that God was telling me to get rid of my tools and that I could cope without them. I did not believe him so ignored him, but he would not leave it and...

You know what I’m talking about.

Your life’s in turmoil.

There’s no escape, everything is all dark
and there’s no light at the end of the tunnel.

You feel as though your life’s going down
the drain no matter what kind of situation
you’re currently in right now.

Your relationships are turning bitter.

And you can’t help but cry, feeling sad, lonely
and depressed because you think to yourself:...