Been There: Me,
Myself & I
Here are stories about real people, your age, who have dealt with some issues around health, STDs, drug use, sexual orientation, emotions, and more. They tell you what it was like for them and what they learned from their experiences.
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Vicky
Mersereau - Doing It My Way: "Being
Different. How To Cope." - |
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Katherine
Henwood - Self Image: "Body Image. How
You Feel About How You Look." - A Teen
Editorial Board member interviews herself. |
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Keshia
Hall - Doing It My Way:
"Everyone deserves and needs love." - |
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Lyndsey
K. - Poet - Doing It My Way: "I
am not going to hide my true identity. It makes me
who I am." Interviewed by Teen
Editorial Board member, Kendra
Congdon. |
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Jennifer
Prather - Health:
"Scoliosis...I Can Overcome This!"
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Nikki
Finazzo - Fires
Within: "Living in Anxiety." - A
Teen
Editorial Board member interviews herself! |
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Simona
Paladini - Relationships:
"Stranger in a Strange
Land." Interviewed by Teen
Editorial Board member, Kathy Chang. |
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Kendra
Lauren Congdon - Spirituality: "Finding
Your Own Path." - A Teen
Editorial Board member interviews herself! |
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Russell
Huffman - Health: "Dealing with
Diabetes." - A Teen
Editorial Board member interviews himself! |
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Barbara - Health - Eating Disorders: "I
want to live!" |
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Jessica
Davis - Doing It My Way - Olympic Gymnast:
"Halfway is like doing nothing." |
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Joey
Swienski - Doing It My Way - Special
Olympics Athlete: "Everybody is a winner in
Special Olympics." |
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Vanessa
- Health - Eating Disorders: "They're lying.
There's a conspiracy against you to make you fat.
You are not going to die." |
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Stephanie
- Health - Eating Disorders: "I got thin and
my life actually got worse!" |
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Gina
De Vries - Sex - Coming Out: "I said, 'l
like girls.' There was this silence at the end of
the phone and then she said, 'Gina, that's okay.'
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Paula
- Sex - HIV Positive: "They asked if I wanted to
take the AIDS test. I said, 'Man, for what? I'm not
a gay man! I don't use drugs.' " |
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Darell
- Sex - HIV Positive and Gay: "I'm a gay Native
American and that's not bad." |
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James
- Sex - HIV Positive
and Gay: "I
always had protected sex. It wasn't an option for
me not to have unprotected sex." |
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Michael
- Sex - Coming Out:
"I didn't feel uncomfortable dating
women, but I knew that I was attracted to men." |
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Linda
- Drugs - Ex-Smoker:
"...she could inhale so perfectly. And I
thought 'Oh, you know, that's so totally
cool.'" |
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Angela
- Drugs - Substance Abuse: "I mean it's good to
have a good relationship with your parents, but to
smoke weed with your mom at age 13!" |
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Tori
- Fires Within - Teen
Suicide: "I was very depressed about my
looks. About friends. About everything!
Adolescence. Everything!" |
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