What was your worst experience with mental health, yours or someone else's? [serious]

Someone else: once (okay it happened more than once, but we're talking about a specific time) my dad tried to kill me because I had a panic attack during a tickle fight. Once, my mom screamed at me for passing out at the top of a flight of stairs (and waking up at the bottom) because she thought I did it on purpose to avoid having to finish cleaning her room. I was sent to my room as punishment. Myself: (affecting other people) I became convinced I was pregnant when I was 16 and caused huge issues in both my own and my boyfriends family. It was years ago and I've apologized profusely, but I'm pretty sure one of his relatives still holds it against me. (Affecting myself) I remember being 14 and binging everyday after school, self harming nightly, and hitting my head on anything that wouldn't make a loud noise just to feel something that wasn't numbness or worthlessness. I remember sitting alone in the stairwell every lunch hour and feeling like the kid in that "Nothing to Lose" music video.

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