Laura’s story

I try to write my story. I try to write how My Chemical Romance saved my life. But let’s go with order.
My name is Laura, I’m 22 years old and I’m from Italy. I’ve always lived of music, without music my life wouldn’t have any sense at all, it’s always been in this way, but My Chemical Romance is something different, it’s not only music, they helped me a lot…I can say that MCR changed my life. Thanks to their songs, thanks to their words I found my self-confidence, I started to believe in myself, I got over an unhappy period of my life. Even if I still have some troubles, now I face them in another way. MCR helped me to understand that I am important and I don’t have to let anyone trample on me, I don’t have to abandon who I am or who I wanna be for make other people happy. MyChem taught me that if I’ve got a dream I have to fight and suffer for realize that dream, because are dreams that make life so special. Now I know that when I feel like shit, when I think that I am just a mess, I know I can count on them, I know that they are there for me, I know that I’m not the only one who’s feeling in this way, they had felt in this way and they got over it. This makes me feel full of hopes and pushes me to fight for what I believe in. It seems a stupid thing, but since I know MCR I’ve became a new person and I like the way I am now. These are the reasons why I cannot believe that they are blamed to push people to suicide. Mychem don’t push to suicide, mychem are a band that saves people’s life. In my chemical romance I’ve found all the help and the comprehension that I needed and I know it’ll be in this way for ever, so thank you guys. My chemical romance saved my life, that’s the fuckin point. Xoxo, Laura

Kristýna’s story

Hello, my name’s Kristýna, I’m from Czech Republic and I’m 16 years old.
I read about that suicide of Hannah on our czech website about My Chemical Romance and I wanted to tell you my opinion. I think she didn’t kill herself because of My Chemical Romance and from my point of view, she had to have her own problems, she didn’t tell her parents and now it’s the worst thing she could do.
I listen to MCR for one year and I can say they save me. Not my life but ME. And I think it’s much more. I was down and I was trying to do something with my life and with my heart. It was crashing down and I didn’t know what to do. It was the worst time for me and I thought nobody loved me that time. I hadn’t have any good friends, I fell in love with wrong person and I was so scared from who I am. I started to listen them because of song Disenchanted and in a while they’ve been my favourite band. Everything started to be better, I was smiling at everybody, I found the best friend I could (now it’s not true, we’re not together everytime we want to because we have our own best friends but I’m so happy because she showed me I can be happier than I was… Now I have my sweetie, my best friend and I don’t want to lose her. Never!) and I found love.
But love hurts and the only thing which stay with you all the time is MCR. They’re my love and because of them I still trust in wonders. So please, don’t tell me that somebody can do a suicide because of them. I live my life because they are and I’m me because I started to listen to their lyrics, music and hearts.
Thank you for showing me the way I can live.
I hope my english wasn’t very bad and that you could read it. Thanks for everything and mostly for this website.

Jay’s story

My Chemical Romance.
You know, down here in New Zealand, if you were linked anyway to My Chemical Romance, you’d get bullshit and crap from your teachers, peers, family, and even those you call your friends. But, even in the darkest times, I learnt to hold my had up high and be proud of who I was.

Hey. My name’s Jay, and I’m a 15 year old in New Zealand.
I guess I had always been happy with my life. I moved around quite a bit ever since I was born, so I got used to losing friends and gaining friends quite a fair bit. At school, I had never been very popular. I was fat, introverted, and not very social. I wasn’t the perfect child either. However, whenever I was with close friends, (which I didn’t have at some schools), I could be myself. I could be truly happy and I would be able to enjoy life.
So I guess I did have an OK childhood. Although, I was bullied quite a bit due to my race, skin color, weight, etc etc. I had suppressed all those bad memories though and kept everything bottled up. Which is very bad.

At some point, I slowly became aware of the world.
I had been sleeping, you could say. I was like a dormant volcano, waiting. For what, I didn’t know.
I think it was when I first discovered the music scene, that I finally woke up.
I still remember that day when I first saw My Chemical Romance on TV. They had just released The Black Parade, and I was taken aback at how I could have missed out on MCR all those years. I had heard of My Chemical Romance now and then vaguely, but I never really did pay any attention to them. Up until that fateful day.
I think I was 13.

After that, I became a madman. Obsessed with this band. This strange, unique band.

I bought all their CD’s and their DVD, bought some of their singles, and their posters.
I had become the ultimate MCR fan within one year.

It was only last year when it all went downhill.
All those years of bullying and suppressed anger at the world had leaked. I was frustrated, suffocating and trapped. I wanted to run as far as I could, somewhere, anywhere. But I couldn’t.
As I sunk deeper into darkness, I became more and more depressed.
I started cutting and harming myself, and I developed a depression that would last me months.

The only thing that got me going was My Chemical Romance. I felt safe and happy-at least for a little while-when I listened to their music.
I think…I think I would have died a long time ago without MCR. No…I’m sure I would have died without those boys.
There was something reassuring…something like kinship and love that they projected through their music. It got to me and I felt reassured that they were there for me, and that they had gone through the same thing I was currently going through myself.

My Chemical Romance is the air that keeps me alive. They are the light in my time of darkness.
Without them, I would have died a long time ago.
I can’t say I’m over my depression. I still am in this darkness. But MCR is still here. And I still listen to them whenever I can. They are like family.

I love MCR with all my heart, and I also love all those who are like me.  All those who love MCR as much as I do.

My Chemical Romance saved my life as they have saved thousands, if not millions of others. And I am truly in debt to them for it.

Thank you My Chemical Romance!

Sonja’s story

Hello my name is Sonja and I am 11yrs old. I am German but have lived in Asia for almost my whole life.

Even though I am still young, MCR saved my life. Me being 11, I am supposed to love High School Musical and crave Zac Efron. Instead I watched MTV Amplified nearly every day. One day I discovered the song “I’m Not Okay”. I love its sound and it gave me this encouraging feeling. So I went down to HMV and got myself “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge”. I put the songs on my iPod every day and listened to them continuously. One day I listened to them right before a test and had the melody of “The End” in my head. This tune encouraged me to try my best. The next day I found out I passed. MCR has improved my grades and encouraged me to take part in many co-curricular activities. It also made me stand up for myself. Before I heard MCR I got bullied a lot. Nobody was there to stand up for me but now I can stand up for myself. Some of my friends listened to the song Dead! and started loving MCR as much as I do. So I really encourage you to share My Chem’s music with your friends. Today I have been to their concert, have all their posters, all their CD’s and I am about to pre-order The Black Parade is Dead!
I hope this proves that 11yr old’s can also enjoy rock music and learn from it.

-Sonja

Sabrina’s story

Hi, my name’s Sabrina. I’m French, I live in Paris’ suburbia and i’ll be 18 this fall.
 
I heard about that girl who killed herself and it really made me angry that the press accused our best band. It proves that MCR’s message still hasn’t been heard. I mean, hope that the fans heard it yet but the medias… it’s like they think it’s a joke when we say “MCR saved my life”. I wanna tell my opinion through my story.
 
It is going to be one year that I listen to My Chem. They were in concert in Paris at the Zénith and I stupidly missed them, because at the same time I was just discovering them. This is strange because the summer when I fall in love with their music, I lost my own grandma (and my grandpa too but i don’t care about him xD). It’s have been a period quite painful and I kept MCR’s music everywhere I went because their music is like a friend. I feel kind of close to them because of that.
I’m not the only one to love this band very much, I’m not the only one to feel lonely and that’s cool. But I have the feeling that saying “MCR saved my life” is like an end. Okay, music saves our lives everyday, but we still keep on suffering. It is not like, you know, I started listening to this great band and I magically felt better ! No no… What I mean is that MCR’s music helps us in our daily life. It’s like when you listen to Helena, you feel how hope is powerful.
MCR is not the only band to make fans feel like that. MCR is not the only band which saves lives. I’m fan aswell of 30 Seconds To Mars and you can hear about the same stories among their fans, me included. It is just a story about music.
I don’t like to complain myself. I don’t like to expose my pain. But I love to talk about the bands who deeply touch my heart with their music, with their personality and what they say in their interviews. MCR is not my life, they’re just a part and my life and this is very cool this way. Music gives a lot of hope. And know that, try to be in their shoes : that is a great responsibility for them when a thousand of people say that they saved their lives. Just be sure when you say that sentence. You know, you don’t have to be depressed to listen to MCR. I passed pretty hard moments, I don’t necessarily wear black clothes, I have a lot of influences, I enjoy MCR and I’m not depressed. And now the few times that I think about suicide, I remember what Gerard always said : “suicide is fucking bullshit”. I want this message be clear. Suicide is fucking bullshit.
 
I hope that my english is fine. It’s awesome to see different people of all over the world writing in here. I would like to end up with that quote in french : La roue finit toujours par tourner.

Paola’s story

Hello My chem´s fans!!! My name´s Paola and I live in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. I´m 17.
I want to tell you why MCR is important in my life.
Somehow i´ve always been myself. you know i like myself. but when i was in jr high i felt like nobody understood me. i felt kind of alone sometimes. my friends didnt get me at all. I felt a hole, i felt like sometimes was missing, i was being someone else, but i wasnt me. i was really influenced by some people. all always people label you all the time. So one day in summer of 2005 i saw Helena´s video on MTV, and it pretty shoking for me!! haha. at first i didnt like it, but i started to listen the song more and more. And you know, i really love it!!. My 15th birthday party was close, i got the Revenge album. So everyday that I came back from school I put the album and i just listened to it. I remember those days, i just felt understood and great. I started to get involved with the songs, you know, My chem just wrote awesome songs, they´re amazing stories that mix fantasty, horror and personal experiences.
I was so happy and its just great listen to MCR every day( thanks God for those 5 kids). and you know people labeled as dark because i started to wear black clothes and converse.. at some point I realized, that i was being someone else, i was being manipulated by some companys and i didnt like that!!!
i changed when i got BULLETS, it was on december 2006. i decided to quit that and i dont really care if i look dark or emo, i dont care, im just being Paola all the time, without inhibitions. And that´s why i care so much about My chemical. they´re really taught that you have to be yourself, no matter what other people think, it they you´re weird, dont listen to them, just listen to heart and your family and your true friends.
now i im myself, its awesome!!!! thank you My chem
no matter what they do, I´ll always listen to them( BULLETS it´s my favorite album ever). sooooooo thanks for being yourself: Gerard, Mikey, Ray, Frankie and Bob!!!!! i really admire those guys.
MCR is a good example of keeping life alive and being yourself MYCHEMICALROMANCE MUCHAS GRACIAS POR SER COMO ERES!!!!!!! MÉXICO T AMA

Hollie’s story

Hello.  My name is Hollie.  I’m from New Orleans, Louisiana, in the U.S.A. and I’m 12 years old.

 

My Chemical Romance saved my life in late 2007.  It was November, if I remember correctly.

 

I coudn’t concentrate in school, because I was always getting made fun of and there were so many rumours about me, that was all I could think about.  So when we recieved our report cards, I had 3 failing grades.

 

I had to show my mom, because you have to get it signed and bring it back.  So I showed her, and she became very unreasonable about my punishment.  I couldn’t leave the house except to go to school until I got my grades up, I couldn’t see my friends (but I only had 2 at the time), and I couldn’t have my phone.  I had my iPod, but it wasn’t charged, and I wasn’t allowed on the computer, either.

 

I had nothing to do, and I fell into a deep state of depression from being stuck in a rut all the time.  My whole life during those 4 months were: wake up, take a shower, go to school, be stuck in another rut because I have to walk around the school following the same path I do every day, go home, eat dinner, go to sleep.  So I got into self harm, just to have something different in my life.

 

So I started having to hide the cuts from everyone.  So I always wore long sleeves.  Until one day, my mom noticed that I wouldn’t walk out of my room with a long sleeve shirt or a jacket on.  So one day, when I wearing a long sleeve undershirt, she came in my room and made me roll up my sleeves.  On my right arm, there was nothing.  On my left arm, she saw nothing because I had bracelets that covered up the scars.  But she saw under them after I moved my arm downwards.  The bracelets fell to the bottom of my wrist, and she could see all of the self-inflicted wounds on the inside of my lower left arm.

 

“…What did you do this with?” she asked me.  I opened up this little black box where I keep everything I’m afraid I’ll lose, and I pulled out two razorblades and handed them to her, while crying hysterically.

 

The strange thing is, she wasn’t dissappointed or sad.  She was angry.  At me.  But she knew it was not MCR’s fault:  she understands the lyrics.  When she first heard The Black Parade (the album), she heard the lyric in “The End” that says “I encourage your smiles; I expect you won’t cry.” and turned to me and said “They have a positive message.”

 

When she was done with her lecture, she stormed out of my room.  I felt that she hated me.  I felt that she didn’t want me anymore.  I felt like no one wanted me anymore, like the world would be better if I wasn’t here.  While I was thinking I noticed my radio was paused.  So I pressed play. 

 

I was about to go get a knife from the kitchen, sneak it in my room, and slit my throat wide open.  But then I noticed what song was playing.  I sat there in my room and listened.  As soon as I heard “I am not afraid to keep on living.  I am not afraid to walk this world alone.”, I stopped thinking those horrible thoughts of suicide.  I realized that even if it seemed like some people didn’t want me here, these 5 amazing boys did.

That was all that mattered to me.  Them.  I knew that as long as they are here, I have 5 people to love, and 5 people who would love me back.

 

On April 24th, 2008 my dream came true.  I got to see My Chem live, and I got to meet Gerard Way.  One day I hope to meet them all.

 

My Chemical Romance saved my life, and I’m proud to say it.

 

—Hollie

Christina’s story

Okay so I am thirteen years old and ever scince I was 5 I had been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. Heres a artical from the wikipedia to explain what it is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome
ever scince I was 5 years old I often would try to commit suiside often by hanging a hanger around my neck. I never fitted in I was never cofterbal I have very few friends But I learned that theres no reason to waste a life I moved on and mcr has had a huge effect on that. Sucide is never the answer I learned that the hard way.

Neeraky’s story

This one’s been written in spanish. I actually study it, but I didn’t understand everything : D And I don’t really have the time to translate it, since I’ve got a lot of exams to prepair. So, spanish speakers, enjoy this : )

Oh, and also, we’ve reached 1000 signs in the petition! Come on guys, keep on like this! Spread the link everywhere. Have you any idea of how many MCR fans are there worldwide? They all MUST SIGN!
Lovely thanks for the support, we appreciate it, and I’m sure MCR would too if they knew about this : )
                                                                                                                                                    

hy everybody, how I see some people hispan Ill use my spanish……..
Al leer todas estas historias me eh quedado asombrada, porque a mi tambien me paso algo muy especial al respecto de lo que estoy segura despues les hare saber…. Cuando me entere de Hanna Bond me quede sin habla, recorde la ocasion que algo parecido le sucedio a Marilyn Manson sobre los chicos que mataron compañeros de su escuela, segun por oir la musica de Manson. Independientemente de quien sea el artista esto no se les debe de culpar a ellos. Conozco a la banda desde hace unos años y no es posible que alguien que es fan se suicide y la culpa se la echen a la banda… Es estupido!
Los culpables aqui sin duda alguna fueron tanto como los padres de la chica, los amigos y sobre todo ella misma… Los padres no la escucharon cuando hablo sobre que se queria morir, los amigos le dieron consejos estupidos y ella los tomo, les hizo caso a sus amigos. My Chemical Romance, es uan banda que aunque regularmente toma el tema de la muerte en la mayoria de sus canciones, la vida es el tema principal, recordemos las historias de Gerard Way. El estuvo mal, a punto del suicidio, pero es una banda que nos a enseñado que lo mas maravilloso que se siente es estar vivo, lo mas hermoso que puede sentir un ser humano es estar vivo!!!
es una completa tonteria la culpabilidad, hasta los que no son fan de ellos lo saben.
Lo que MCR hizo en mi vida fue grandioso, y nunca me sentire tan agradecida con la musica como ahora……..
Mi pesame para la familia de Hanna y lo mejor para su familia que fueron los culpables…..

Paula’s story

i’m paula i’m from brazil
and i will tell how mcr saved my life
my english it’s not very good but i’ll try.
when i was 13 i hated my life, myself.
my mom was sick(depress), and my father didn’t help.
when i heard mcr i felt so much better.
they helped me a lot!
i can say that they gave me back, faith, hopless,strong and the most important, they gave my life back!
today i can say that i’m okay right now.
and my family too..
my mom my father…
and i’m really happy
thanks MCR for everything
and all that i am today it’s because of you.