I was really close friends with this guy for 2 years before we started dating. It was my first relationship and I felt really comfortable with him. We started doing some physical stuff and it was good. After a while, the pressure to go further got more intense. He wanted to take that next step in our relationship and have sex. My parents never gave me the ‘sex talk’ so I didn’t know a whole lot about it.

My family doesn't have a lot of money. It's just Mum and my two brothers. It doesn’t leave any extra for things like new clothes. People at school don't understand because they're from rich families. I feel like an outcast most of the time.

In year 12 I had been struggling to keep up with study and a part time job. The pressure was getting to me and I got stressed and depressed. I had to decide what I wanted to do after school - there was so much pressure to get into the courses that interested me.  A lot of my friends seemed really sure about what they wanted to do.  

I never really noticed how much time I spent online until I started to feel exhausted at school. I was catching up on Facebook and gaming with my friends online, but I always lost track of time and it was 2am before I got to sleep! My friends were getting annoyed because they thought I wasn’t listening to them. My parents were worried and got mad because I was always in my room on my laptop. I also realised how much work I had to do for my end of year exams.

I had just started seeing this guy from another school. He was really nice and we got along super well. One day for fun he asked me to send him a naked picture of myself. At first I was like, no way! But as we kept talking it didn’t seem like too big a deal, it was only to him. Things being so new I didn’t want it to end either. So I did.  What I didn’t realise was he forwarded that picture to one of his friends and eventually it got around to his whole year group.

I had a bunch of fake accounts created - they were using my pictures, adding my friends and sending really bad messages to everyone. I had no idea who was doing this but I started to lose friends because they thought it was me. 
I remembered my class talked about KHL one day so I decided to give them a try. They helped me so much.

I was getting down about what I was seeing on the news. Whenever I looked at my phone it felt like all I ever heard were sad or bad things happening to people. I thought ‘what if that could happen to me or my family?’. My friends at school even started to notice how sad I was feeling. I couldn't explain why I felt that way - nobody else seemed to worry about this stuff.