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Tag: self harm

While I’m Still Here

Posted on May 31, 2017Jun 20, 2017 by Germ Magazine guest author

In 2007, when I was 16, I was in the midst of some really bad bullying at school. I had a lot of things going on in my personal life as well as my home life, and I was struggling with my own mental health and my own well-being. That was all until one afternoon […]

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This Wave by Taylor Brown

Posted on Apr 19, 2017May 9, 2017 by Germ Magazine guest author

The thing about breathing is that despite it all despite how much I don’t want to sometimes, I still want to keep breathing especially on the good days on the days that I am still here mentally physically the days my body and my brain stay together like they should I’ve not had days that […]

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Suicide: Seek Help, Be Help

Posted on Jun 6, 2016Jul 5, 2016 by Germ Magazine guest author

So many young people are taking their own lives before their life even truly begins. Why is that? Maybe it’s a home situation, maybe it’s a result of being bullied, or maybe it’s just a side effect of a chemical flaw. Whatever the cause is, the end result is still the same. We are facing […]

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Dear Self: You’re Worth It

Posted on Dec 20, 2015Jan 17, 2016 by Germ Magazine guest author

Dear Self, I haven’t been writing for myself–excuse me, for you–ever since I met the people around my life: family, friends, loved ones, and that special someone. The idea of giving time to myself seemed useless; people needed me even more than I need myself. But time came, and I suddenly see myself slowly falling […]

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Notes on Loving the Girl Stained with Scars and Depression by Megan Tyler

Posted on Oct 21, 2014Feb 14, 2019 by Megan Tyler

Lend her your hope; she will label it as her own and attach to you like velcro. Don’t treat her like a thunderstorm; she is so much more than an electrical storm. She is a tsunami wave displacement of a water body that she calls her own skin. If she writes to you, write back. […]

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Anger is Sadness Set on Fire by Megan Tyler

Posted on Aug 28, 2014Feb 14, 2019 by Megan Tyler

My mother made a slide show for my grandfather’s funeral, and I would stand in silence, observing the process, and she pushed me aside as if she was hiding a secret between the words she had typed onto that empty page and she did not want me to look beyond the letters.   The remains […]

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The Truth About Cutting

Posted on Jul 26, 2014Feb 13, 2019 by Elizabeth Nichols

It’s summertime: time to break out the tank tops and shorts! I stand apprehensive at my closet, looking in. My heart thuds, sending my blood pulsing to the scars I so desperately try to hide on my legs. I’ve never worn “short shorts” before. My standard has always been that my shorts have to be […]

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Cut it Out

Posted on Jan 14, 2014Aug 7, 2014 by R. Shannon Duval

Q: A friend of mine at school has started cutting herself. Should I tell anyone? (I don’t want people to think I’m a rat.)

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