It was a normal day June 20, 2013, I woke up and got ready for work for 11 AM. When I stepped outside I had come to find it had rained really hard the night before, but I didn't think anything of it. Walking closer to work now, I started hearing building alarms going off, and by the time I had to cross the road the cement street had turned into a flowing river, so I walked back home. Our town high River is known for floods; 1995, 2005 they were small but 2013 changed our community and Albertans life forever. It had not even been 10 minutes before I got home I went to the washroom and the power went out, so I stepped outside to find half the community running for their lives, running from water. We have literally three minutes to grab all the memories from the basement I grabbed one days worth of clothes and then ran to our water breaching vehicle. In that time We had lost everything in our home, our bed, clothes, baby pictures, artwork, all the memories of our childhood Gone. The army had blocked off all access to our town, people could not enter to get their abandoned animals and possessions, the police broke down every single door and took weapons and possessions That weren't theirs. Keenan and I were evacuated and separated for two weeks before we could enter what was called our home to start cleaning.

My story begins in Finland, helsinki when I was a young Child. My Mother had severe diabetes and forgot to take her medication one day and fell into a coma and passed away. My father turned to alcohol to numb the pain and developed a drinking problem. My grandparents took care of my sister and I while he got the professional help he needed. not long after we all moved to Australia to begin a new life, where my father met a new woman. My Evil stepmother and my new step family that would change my life forever. I spent years of my childhood being mentally & physically abused. I was in the closest and scared to come out as being gay, everybody knew I was but they made me felt like a freak, a disgusting piece of shit. WHen nobody was home, I would dress up in my mothers old clothes and pretend I was a hollywood star ( cher on repeat) My step mother walked in on me one day and bashed me. called me a stupid fag, I felt broken. dead inside. My dad got a great job where he travelled a lot and was hardly ever home, so we did not see him much and was left in the care of our stepfamily, over the years we had lost contact with our grandparents and other family. eventually my dad and stepmother got divorced and i got stuck with her, as a teenager my step mother would wake me up at 6 am drive me all the way to the petrol station hours away, make me take all my money out of my account at...Read more...

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My life isn't what it used to be anymore. My parents got divorced when I was 14 (I'm 17 now). I think my dad fell in love with another women and I still have a hard time dealing with it, especially when I'm staying at his house. Now I have to move in a year from the house that I call 'home', with my mom and honestly, I am terrified. Since my parents got divorced, life became more difficult. I started to diet, but I didn't have the discipline. So I decided to eat anything what I wanted and to just throw it up. Now I can't stop it anymore and nobody knows. I really hate myself and I'm struggling with self harm for quite a long time now. This is my story that I have never told anyone and I'm so scared to even think about telling the truth [[lm.cry]]

My story isn't particularly interesting. I was a pretty good kid until high school. My family is riddled with mental disorders. My mom was a nervous person with anxiety problems. My dad has bipolar disorder really bad. He always had explosive anger, and we feared him as kids, but it really started to get bad when I was about 14. He was forced out of work for threatening someone and started drinking all the time and beating my mom and me, calling us horrible names and telling us to go to hell. He lost his driver's license and frequently stole my bike to go to the bar. Or I would have to drive him. Once he hit me in the face while I was turning a corner, and I drove us into the ditch. I was defiant. I mouthed off and got smacked. I lost respect for him. I called the cops on him and tried to run away several times, but no one takes the word of a hysterical young girl over a man's. I was a depressive goth teen who hid behind a big leather jacket and blood red hair. My sources of solace were music, art and my notebook. I wrote stories and poems and drew all night long, every night. I was too smart for school and very lonely. I didn't care about school and almost failed senior year due to truancy, until my art teacher let me hand in my sketchbook for credit, and one science teacher treated me like a credible adult and actually motivated me to study and do well. Even though I got...Read more...

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It's true. Some Moments in my life are very dark and very painful. Some people in my past are like an devil. Today i've learned soo much of this Moments. I'm strong to accept me and my past. And in the same way I'm ready to start into the future with love, passion and pride. [[lm.pawsup]] [[lm.heart]]

My story is different then others. It's not about drugs, it's not about illness. It's about being an Introvert and Jealousy and how being quiet and bottling all your feelings up could literally destroy you. So when I was in the 7th grade my sister and cousin who are the same age got to be in the same class that year (theyre one year younger than me so theyre in the 6th grade at the time). The three of us always used to hang out and we'd never have problems we'd get along great. But when my sister and cousin ended up in the same class they started to hang out together a lot and had more inside jokes and more things in common so I started to feel really left out. I was already a quiet person at school not very loud but after this incident I became mute. The next year they were still in the same class and the feeling of jealousy and being unwanted continued. My homeroom teacher even told my parents that it wasn't normal for me to be this quiet and he warned them. Anyways those feelings never went away. I'm 24 now and because of what I've been through at that time I'm now unable to form a close, intimate, real relationship with my cousin...and we also moved from the U.S to Turkey when I was 14 and we normally came that summer to Turkey for summer vacation as we did every 2 years but my grandfathers alzheimers was getting worse and no one wanted to look after him anymore so we did...Read more...

love, fight, vodka, marijuana, tobacco, fake friends just for eating, loneliness and harsh place of residence.

My Story Begins In August 7 2008, I Was Dying from Crohn's Disease, I went TO two hospitals Which Could Do Nothing For 1 Month Each Then In August, I was Sent by Ambulance To Mount Sinai In Manhattan. I went from 220 pounds down to 140 in less than three months, I was Very Sick And Week,I Happened To Have A Family Member Find A Doctor Bauer In Manhattan, A Crohn's Specialist. The Night Before The Surgery, The Doctor Waled Into The Room And Said To Me, Mario This Will Be A Tough operation, and it could go either way, we hope for the best, and have faith in me. When He Left The Room I Felt Like Crying My Wife Was There, And She Said Concentrate On something, So I Said Put On The Tv, As I Went threw the channels a show was coming on and it said Lady Gaga Will Be singing Poker Face. I never heard Of Lady Gaga Before This, And I watched, I Listened Closely to her sing poker face,, and you can't read my poker face, I started to sing the song, and I fell asleep to it, the next morning, at 8am they came for me, and as they rolled me to the operating room I sang Poker Face, until I went To Sleep. They found I had to have two feet of colon removed, A hole in my bladder, the size of a half dollar and fistulas threw out my chest, a long surgery, and then when I woke up, The Doctor Asked How Do You Feel ? I replied You Can't see my P P P Poker Face, So Now I Consider Lady Gaga As My...Read more...

I have a long story but I'll make it short. Like the song Bad Kid by Gaga. That was me. I was really bad ever since I was really young. I got into drugs at a very young age and struggled with wanting to be loved and accepted. Most of all I struggled to love myself. I had amazing parents and they always provided for me. I struggled with being gay and felt out of place growing up. It was just something you never talked about. I thought maybe everyone had these types of attractions towards men but I continued to live a more straight lifestyle through high school and kept my sexual attraction towards men private. When I was in school and young it was a lot worse then it is today to be openly gay. I came out at 18 and my parents supported me and never treated me any different, My brothers and sister as well. That's such a blessing! In my 20's I found God and became born again. I again started to struggle. Then God put it in my heart that love isn't a sin. I knew it was ok to have a loving relationship with the same sex. I was clean of drugs at this time but eventually relapsed. I was again spiraling out of control and living a horrible life hurting everyone in my path because of my addiction. I suffered from panic disorder as well. I'm now 34 and in recovery. In June I'll have 4 yrs clean. I'm grateful to God, My family, and my sponsor. God and this program I'm working has kept me...Read more...

My Story Begins In August 7 2008, I Was Dying from Crohn's Disease, I went TO two hospitals Which Could Do Nothing For 1 Month Each Then In August, I was Sent by Ambulance To Mount Sinai In Manhattan. I went from 220 pounds down to 140 in less than three months, I was Very Sick And Week,I Happened To Have A Family Member Find A Doctor Bauer In Manhattan, A Crohn's Specialist. The Night Before The Surgery, The Doctor Waled Into The Room And Said To Me, Mario This Will Be A Tough operation, and it could go either way, we hope for the best, and have faith in me. When He Left The Room I Felt Like Crying My Wife Was There, And She Said Concentrate On something, So I Said Put On The Tv, As I Went threw the channels a show was coming on and it said Lady Gaga Will Be singing Poker Face. I never heard Of Lady Gaga Before This, And I watched, I Listened Closely to her sing poker face,, and you can't read my poker face, I started to sing the song, and I fell asleep to it, the next morning, at 8am they came for me, and as they rolled me to the operating room I sang Poker Face, until I went To Sleep. They found I had to have two feet of colon removed, A hole in my bladder, the size of a half dollar and fistulas threw out my chest, a long surgery, and then when I woke up, The Doctor Asked How Do You Feel ? I replied You Can't see my P P P Poker Face, So Now I Consider Lady Gaga As My...Read more...

My Story Begins In August 7 2008, I Was Dying from Crohn's Disease, I went TO two hospitals Which Could Do Nothing For 1 Month Each Then In August, I was Sent by Ambulance To Mount Sinai In Manhattan. I went from 220 pounds down to 140 in less than three months, I was Very Sick And Week,I Happened To Have A Family Member Find A Doctor Bauer In Manhattan, A Crohn's Specialist. The Night Before The Surgery, The Doctor Waled Into The Room And Said To Me, Mario This Will Be A Tough operation, and it could go either way, we hope for the best, and have faith in me. When He Left The Room I Felt Like Crying My Wife Was There, And She Said Concentrate On something, So I Said Put On The Tv, As I Went threw the channels a show was coming on and it said Lady Gaga Will Be singing Poker Face. I never heard Of Lady Gaga Before This, And I watched, I Listened Closely to her sing poker face,, and you can't read my poker face, I started to sing the song, and I fell asleep to it, the next morning, at 8am they came for me, and as they rolled me to the operating room I sang Poker Face, until I went To Sleep. They found I had to have two feet of colon removed, A hole in my bladder, the size of a half dollar and fistulas threw out my chest, a long surgery, and then when I woke up, The Doctor Asked How Do You Feel ? I replied You Can't see my P P P Poker Face, So Now I Consider Lady Gaga As My...Read more...

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My Story is too long to write here but to cut it shorter I've been bullied, at school and by friends, never really had friends proper friends growing up! Maybe I'm a freak! ive suffered with severe stress, panic attacks, anxiety and depression. Been on and off medications, seen a physiologist, had counciling nothing helped. Been bullied at work throughout the years. In a lot of debt and it causes me more stress and depression I struggle to cope and still do but Gaga came along and her music makes me happy she saved my life... Many times I wanted to die and end my life even now and in nearly 30 years old! To this day I still really don't have a best friend just a few close ones but we drift apart sometimes so I feel so alone. @gaga ❤️ you so much, to me your my best friend and my mother monster xx. 💖✨💋 p.s I want to see cheek to cheek but can't afford to! Really wanted to meet you @gaga I will be waiting at your hotel hoping you have a minute so I can hug you and tell you I ❤️ you xx

My story (in a nutshell) my dad's in the military so I've moved around to different countries all my childhood, always with the same group of military families so my friends always moved with me. After living in Ireland my dad got the chance to move to Birmingham for a promotion, where all my friends moved to the next army place, so I started a non army secondary school and got really bullied for having a posh accent and being 'camp' something I'd never been called or experienced. That was tough! Got through school and got into uni, went abit 'crazy' doing lots of drugs and drinking every day, stealing from shops and becoming really out of control, I ended up dropping out and after a struggle found out I have bipolar, I've been home 2 years now and am on meds that have saved my life! Got a job, everything is good again! Gaga really saved me when I was at my worst, I would listen to her music every day. I love you all!