I’m 17, diagnosed with depression when I was 13, medicated since I was 15. In the past 2 years I’ve developed a self-harm addiction as well as an addiction to really anything that causes me to be more depressed.

I put myself in situations that cause me to feel self-destructive just to feel something and it’s starting to destroy my life. I cut to cope, not because I hate my body. I started my current relationship because I love my partner to death, but also because I know the distance between us is going to drain me emotionally until I can’t eat and I can’t live with myself.

Living because the people I love tell me that life gets better is no way to spend my early years, I just don’t see the way out.