At 14, Brianna was living a double life. The daughter of divorced parents, she spent healthy and positive time with her father and stepmother - but life with her mother included abuse and self-injury. She remembers the day the truth came out.

"Her father and stepmother had found a box in her room, filled with pills and the tools [she] was using to injure herself. 'That's when I had my breakdown and everything came out,' [she] said."

She told her dad about the abuse, as well as her own drug use and self-injury. Counseling and behavioral therapy have helped her tremendously, and she's about to graduate from high school. She wants kids in similar situations to know that there is better way to live. Getting away from drugs and self-harm isn't easy, but it can be done. Source: The Reporter-Herald

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