My story begins in primary school. It wasn't that bad in school until later on. I was called immature and stupid and I was alone with only one close friend. I was left to fend for myself because my parents were connstantly at work so that sucked. My brother started to yell and scream at me and call me names. It wasn't bad but it wasn't hunky dory either. He had these freak outs and would take out his anger on me and it truly sucked. I stayed strong with my friend and acted okay. One of my brother's freak outs were so bad I had to sit on a stool in the corner on my iPod so i wouldn't be verbally attacked. He had his own problems also too. He was being bullied for being short and energetic and sadly it was bad. He was kicked, punched, ect. The terrible thing was he took it out on me. He started tae kwon doe and the bullying stopped for him but it got worse for me. His vocabulary and cruelty lever rose and he directed it at me. He took he agression out on me. Sadly this became physical and he hit me and kicked me and threw me down. He yelled and screamed and called me terrible terrible names. I went into high school and things started to look up for school but rocketed down at home. I was always the last person to go home out of my new friend group. It was around this time when I cut for the first time. It wasn't bad. I didn't get hospitalized And no body knew. I was going through a fight I shouldn't have gone through alone. This persisted and I wasn't going to take it anymore and I started to fight back. My brother didn't like that but I was done being a human punching bag. I was a good sister and I still cared but I just didn't want to deal with that crap anymore. There was a point that he denies to that day when he put a knife up to my neck. I honestly thought he was going to kill me. Anyways, After my parents seperated and they went their ways my dad chose his girlfriend over us and that made me more irritable. It has gotten semi better but I am still dealing with this to this day and it's a hard life but I think I can last. If anybody is going through anything like this please just keep hanging on. It will get better. I promise.