When I was 16 years old, I went through a very dark period of my life. I was struggling with being sexually assaulted 6 years before by a neighbor and felt like the world had betrayed me and I was crying out for help. No one knew what had happened to me, I told very few people, but I felt someone should have known and should have helped me. In a final attempt to cry out for help I wrote a suicide note; I am not sure if I was really going to attempt to take my life, but I needed to get my feelings out. My dad found the note and my parents got me on anti-depressants and took me to a single counseling session. Unfortunately the counselor knew my family and I; so he was unable to help me and I refused to go back. I now know that free depression help is easier to find, and I plan on never going back to that dark spot again. I will seek assistance before it gets too far. I hope that you all will seek help too, depression isn’t something anyone should have to live with.