[A-Clark]

Personally, I was abused all through my childhood and don’t have any happy memories. When you’re a kid, your life, every detail of it, can be controlled by your family and it is very true that there is no escape. If you’re one of the very lucky ones that can prove you’re being abused, you might go to foster care, where molestors and other kinds of abusers lurk. Another option to kids is to run away, but that usually ends up involving drugs and selling yourself for sex. Kids know these things, and it’s very overwhelming. I could only live day-to-day, I didn’t care plan for the future, because I didn’t see myself as having one. Kids of all ages are targets for millions of child sexual predators and adults who want to enjoy exercizing thier power to control another individual to meet thier needs or desires. As a result of this background, I was not a happy child. Chemicals in your brain make up emotions, like one chemical making good feelings and another making bad feelings, so my environment was making bad feeling chemicals in my brain for years. When I was out of the situation, the formative years of my brain producing those ‘sad’ chemicals, or depression, continued making those chemicals at the same level, because that was now the learned ‘normal’ emotional state. For the rest of my life I will need to take medication that will force my brain to make good feeling chemicals to counter-act the effect of over-production of bad feeling chemicals. I hope people are beginning to learn that depression is not a weakness or a state of mind. I am optimistic by nature and always try to keep my environment uplifting. I am a very strong person. I was suicidal as a youth as well, but now that I’m free I can find reasons to go on and get help.

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Name : A-Clark, City : SLC, State : UT, Country : United States, 

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