for anyone who needs to hear this:

Please read:

I have, yes. I've been depressed since I started middle school, and throughout that time I was self harming, and I still bare the scars from that part of my life, but I've been clean for over four years now. I still do struggle with depression and suicidal thoughts, but it's a hell of a lot better now than it was back when I was ten years old. I'm not ashamed of the markings that I have from myself, not truely, I just think of them as a piece of me and what I overcame (damn that sounds lame as fuk). Soon I hope to get plant tattoos on my scars, not to hide them but more bring more attention to them and accept myself and the fact that I'm okay. That even if things aren't okay now, and even if things might not be okay tomorrow or even the day after, that I can look forward to the days that I will ok, on the days that I can wake up smiling for no reason.