"I was convinced there was something wrong with me," Shanie Beauregard, 21, said of her life before coming out as a lesbian, when she was tormented and teased by classmates. "I thought it was my fault, that I had done something to bring it on."
The Carleton University student remembers times when she had to stay away from the kitchen because she didn't trust herself around knives, or when she wouldn't climb too many levels in a building for fear she might jump.
Beauregard recently uploaded a video to It Gets Better, a You-Tube channel where thousands of people have posted testimonials in solidarity with the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender community (LGBT).
The collection of videos showcases people talking about being bullied and feeling hopeless -but they also tell tales of falling in love and living fulfilling lives. The videos all have the same, simple message: it gets better.
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