Well I lived in NC for basically my whole life. That’s where a lot of my family lives (which made my mom happy) and that’s where I met all my friends. I knew everybody at my school and everybody knew me. I was very outgoing and could talk to anyone there. I never felt weird or uncomfortable or anything like that.

Just two years ago we ended up moving to SC because my dad had found a job that would help us out(we are a poor family and lived in my grandma’s home). The job didn’t go well and he left it and so they both had jobs that just got us through the weeks with a little bit of extra money.

Fast forward to a year and a half in, my mom lost her vision and has kidney failure. She woke up with blurry vision one day and went to the hospital(which also dragged us down with bills) and has something wrong with her eyes and kidney failure. She can’t get a transplant due to Medicare declining her as well as disability. So now my mom isn’t working and only my dad is, we’re still struggling with money, and forgot to mention the fact that I have no friends around where I live and I feel really uncomfortable at my school.

Before my boyfriend and I started talking again(before we got together he had broke his phone and wasn’t able to get a new one therefore not able to talk. We had also drifted off around this time for a few months) I would cry every morning and every afternoon and involved myself in self-harm for about a year. I barely ate and once yelled at my mom saying how I wanted to kill myself because of school.

Last year, when my boyfriend and I got together, I never cried over school. I was always coming home talking about stuff that happened that I found funny or annoying and always had a smile. I stopped harming myself and ate more since my boyfriend helped me get into better habits. I haven’t gone back since.