“There are other Black students like me — survivors of violence — waiting for the opportunity to open up. We want to get help so we can get better.”
I started seeing a therapist with my mother at 15 years old. I was a freshman in high school, and my mother took me out of extra-curricular activities because she wanted me to improve my grades, and thought I could do better academically if I didn’t participate in them. I was no longer in step, dance, or the multicultural show, even though I felt better around my peers. This isolation was a huge deal to me, but no one around me understood that.
At 16, I used a knife to harm myself. I was dealing with family and relationship issues, and life felt overwhelming. I was gripped by an internal pain that I didn’t want to feel and resorted to self-harm. Even though I was still seeing a therapist, nobody knew the depth of emotional pain I was experiencing; I didn’t show any signs that I was suicidal or wanted to harm myself.
After the Parkland mass shooting, I recognized that the services offered to me and my classmates didn’t help us deal with the trauma we had experienced. As a result of the shooting, I’m hypersensitive to crowds and loud sounds — they trigger panic attacks. Somehow, I had the presence of mind to seek out a trauma expert to get the help that I needed at the time, but now that I’m away at college, I don’t have the support I need it.
There are other Black students like me — survivors of violence — waiting for the opportunity to open up. We want to get help so we can get better. For this reason and more, it’s important for lawmakers, health professionals, and youth advocates to join forces with groups like the
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