My name's Summer, I'm 19 years old and I live in Gympie. I grew up in a one parent household, I lived with mum and my younger siblings. We grew up poor. About high school one of my older siblings got into using substances. Then before I knew it I was living in a domestic violence household. I couldn't go home because it was more a war zone than a home. Then I'd go to school where I was really badly bullied. I couldn't go anywhere, I didn't feel safe around anyone. It got to the point where I didn't feel safe around myself, and everything just got really bad for me. I was closed off from everybody, I couldn't really talk to anybody about what I was going through. So I turned to going online. I used the ReachOut website a lot during high school. I went on the forums, I communicated with everybody just so I wasn't feeling as alone, like there was somebody on the other side of another screen listening. I started getting help first from mental health in Gympie and then from my GP I was sent back and forth after being diagnosed with either depression or anxiety or borderline personality disorder. Now when I'm openly talking about what I've been through and getting the chance to either be helping others that is more than what I thought, I didn't see a life after high school but now I'm already planning for my future.