I Am a Survivor Stories of Experiences

I am alive here today because I fought.

I am here because I changed from a lamb to a lion. I am fierce and passionate - sometimes misunderstood..

But I swear, no one will ever ruin me. No one can touch me and hurt me ever again.

I'm...

We are all survivors in one way, shape or form. For some, this claim comes from having overcome some medical issue while others have been forced to deal through the scars left by a physical accident or legacy.

For some though, like...

was married for 21 years. wife cheated on me for 7 years. lost my wife and daughter. caught my neighbors saying bad things about me 3 times. i am losing my house, into foreclosure. i am losing $300,000 that i spent on the house. lost...

My age says nothing about the trouble that I have already been through. I remember being young, but never truly being a child. My mom had worked a seven to eleven shift at a hospital a few towns over from us.
My older brother has been...

As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, I know the feeling of pain, but I survived. As an only child growing up on a large isolated farm with alcoholic parents that would leave me alone on weekends, I learned to survive on my own at an...

On the night of November 18 2007 at 12am my life changed forever , my car lost control and crashed against a fence and kept going going down the hill till it fell into a canal. As I realized my car getting filled with water as it slowly...

My whole life has been about survival. When I was a child it was about surviving the physical handicap I had to deal with because of the decision my mother made to have a child sired by a man who had a disease with a 50 % rate of being...

Today I say
I AM OK
Today I say
LOOK AT ME, WORLD
I AM OK
You took nothing from me
Because it's all coming back
Today I say WORLD
I AM OK
And so it is

In the future when I have children, I'm going to make them watch the movie "2012" and I'm going to tell them, Yeah I survived that.
Yup
And this was my famous story yay

I am a descendent of Iraqi Jews.

I am a descendent of Algerian Jews.

I am a descendent of French, Parisian Jews.

My father says we are as a race resilient and indefatible.

I am resilient, I cannot lose in life as I am a survivor.

A couple years ago I finally got away from an abusive home environment. It took me about a year to realize I wasn't still in that situation. To adjust to having a place to sleep at night and a parent actually acts like a parent. It took...

I wish I could say that my story is one of butterflies, rainbows, and various other happy things. However, I haven't had much experience with such things. Only recently have I been able to see the light of day again.
For a long time I...

I was born to a silly young girl…whose catholic parents forbid her to have an abortion. They had to cut me out because I was in breech….and being strangled by my life line.
Later she would say the mark across her belly was the scar...

I'm a 14 year old girl and at the start of this year I was diagnosed with depression, and I was finding everything really tough. I was cutting myself quite often and spent a lot of time thinking about suicide. But now my counsellor says...

I was a victim of violent child abuse. Notice that I used the word "was", because I don't consider myself as a victim anymore, I am a survivor.
The abuse started the moment I was born, at first it was still not too bad because it was...

i am now 34 years old..... i successfuly survived a grade 4 SAH from a burst aneurysm about 29 months ago..... i am now slowly successfully progressively back to the job i had before this all started.

i am more healthy that i ever was...

But don't ever say I didn't warn you.....

I am a 43 yr old woman who has been through so many challenges. The biggest challenge I have faced was losing my 15 yr old son in a terrible accident 2 1/2 yrs ago. I thought my life was over, but with faith an support I'm getting...

I am almost there- I can feel it. I can feel it in my heart. There are whispers of impending success, and although I am daunted by the enormity of the tasks in front of me, I am excited to try. I still hear the whispers of doubt you...

This is a hard life time. I've lived a very colorful life, some hard times some good times like most other people. I am a survivor no matter what crosses my path. Just am unable to give up. Life is what you make it. I've been sick a...