Coping with our daughter's new face - BBC News

The scary part of attempting suicide is surviving it. Then having to live with such horrific consequences.

NO boyfriend....NO girlfriend...No breakup is worth ruining yourself...!! Life is hard enough...!! TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF...!!

I tried taking my life in 2010 and they they actually lost me for a minute. When they resuscitated me and I remember at the time being so angry that they didn’t just let me die. I ended up in ICU and hospitalized for almost a month. At that time I truly did not want to be here because the pain I was In Was so unbearable that I didn’t think that it would ever go away. I’m so glad the paramedics saved me. To this day I wish I could track them down and thank them. And every day I’m so grateful to be here. Things can get better. I’m 40 now and I’m probably the happiest And healthiest I’ve ever been in my life and I’m doing all the things that I love that I put off for years due to depression.. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Don’t ever give up!. It might not seem like it in the moment, but it will get better❤️ life’s a rollercoaster full of ups and downs. But it’s beautiful.

My father lost part of his face (chin, mouth and part of the nose) in world war II, when he was 25 years old. After a dozend chirurgical reconstructions in Vienna university hospital he met my mother and they had three children, one of them is me. I never thought of my father as a unnormal looking person, because I couldn't imagine him looking different than I was used to. I loved him so much, because he was the most loving and caring father and an most inspiring and supporting teacher and head of school. He was a wonderful grandfather for my three kids, and he finally died at the age of 94. Me and all his family and friends still miss him so much. Please darling, don't look back! Look forward to all the love and joy and fun, that is still going to happen to you - and look forward to all the positive inspirations and feelings you will give to other people. Hope you live and love your life!

If you’re a struggling teenager, please believe me that in five years those problems will mean so little to you that you’ll barely remember them.

Yeah her face is better but what about her mental state? I pray this lady is getting treatment

This is why you should never make permanent decisions off temporary feelings

The way she jumped when her mother clapped her hands was heartbreaking 🥺

See at the end of the day, whos there for you? Its always your parents...not your friends, not your boyfriend or girlfriend, you family is there to help you. Respect them and be greatful for them

Can you take a second to realize how good the plastic surgeons did reconstructing her face... Modern medicine even in the last 50 years is almost like science fiction..

When she said "lifes is a gift, a wonderful tremendous gift", her mom didnt look convinced. Her mom is clearly affected by having her daughter change faces 3 times in her short life. PTSD, suicide and attempts have a ripple effect. I'm glad she is alive because she wants to be alive, that's clear. I hope her dreams come true. I hope her mom finds some peace too.

This hit me in another way. I made terrible decisions, also very impulsive decisions as Katie but to get plastic surgery because I hated my original face, after battling BDD and suicidal thoughts for so long I really regretted getting surgery and Katie’s story reminded me of how our faces are not just for aesthetic value, but highly functional. Every muscle, every facial feature is functional and we need to cherish and protect our faces. If any young girl is watching this, please don’t kill function for aesthetics and make the same mistakes that I did. Impulsive decisions are terrible because they stay with us forever. I hope you know your face is beautiful as it is, eyes to see, a nose to breathe well, that’s beauty. Stay safe and blessed everyone x❤

I feel bad for her brother .. she took his gun and now he probably has unbelievable guilt for no reason

Dear Stranger, You’re worth it. You’re important. You’re amazing. Don’t forget that

Depression is no joke, stop judging her, you can never imagine the amount of pain going on inside one's head, constant and with hopelessness, it leaves you with a strange feeling that screams in your head that you're unloved, not worthy, have no future and it makes you anxious constantly and any time it roars high and suddenly changes your thoughts from normal to extreme that then can change your determined decesions into hopelessness, life will be never like before and you constantly blame yourself for everything, you get triggered by tiny thoughts literally anytime and you won't be able to do things in which you were very good/best, and you can't think clearly, your thought process changes and literally everything changes EVERYTHING, so stop judging her, you don't know what it's like to be depressed. And it can happen to ANYONE!

Her father speaks so deeply with such meaning

This is why I can't kill myself. No matter what I go through, I can't see my parents going through that.

Moral of the story: Don't commit any irrational decisions and impulse behaviours when you're sad.

I just ran across this story. I had never heard it before. As a survivor of a suicide attempt my heart breaks for this girl. My wounds are inside and the world can’t see them. I have lasting brain damage and must live my life with this as a consequence to my actions. I can’t imagine what it must be like for Katie having scars on the outside that the world can clearly see. I’m glad you got a second chance at life Katie. If anyone out there needs to hear it. Life is precious. Reach out for help if you are struggling. So many people don’t get a second chance to live. God bless this girl for sharing her story.

she went from being a gorgeous young lady to literally creating her own personal hell on earth due to a millisecond decision to pull that trigger...