Danet’s “saved by MCR” story

Hi, my name is Danet, and if you could, I wanted to share my story with anyone that would listen. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

I’m 13 years old MCR defiantly saved my life more than once. When I was younger, my sister used to listen to MCR and I remember that the first time I ever heard them was when I watched the Helena music video with my sister. I loved it even thought I was so young. I remember watching a lot of MCR videos with her. But after a while, she got into other bands and I forgot about MCR. After all, I wasn’t old enough to really know what they were talking about when they sang songs like Famous Last Words and I’m Not Okay. I had a pretty okay life through 5^th grade. My parents fought a lot though and my dad treated my sister like shit. One night, my parents got into a huge fight. And I mean huge. The cops ended up coming to our house. The whole time my sister sat in my room with me while I cried. She stuck by me and I loved her for it. My parents decided on a divorce and it hit me hard because I was so close to my dad. My mum, sister, and I ended up moving out of state to live with my grandparents. Now, at first, everything was okay. Yeah, I had things like “Emo” and “Freak” thrown at me, but I tried to ignore it. When I went into middle school, things got really bad. I was constantly called Emo, freak, and weird, anything you can think of. People constantly asked if I was emo and I always said no. But it just got to be too much and I started cutting myself around 7^th grade. I just felt so alone and just plain scared. No one understood me or even wanted to try. My sister shut herself up and pushed everyone away, my so called dad acted like he didn’t give a shit and never paid child support, never talked to us, and went on vacations to Italy with the money that was supposed to be feeding us. This is where My Chem really starts to come into my life. I was looking through Fuse one day and saw a loaded episode on My Chemical Romance. I remembered the name and thought: Hey, I’ll listen to these guys again. So I recorded it and the next day watched it. It went through the song Welcome To The Black Parade and I remembered that. Then it started playing Famous Last Words and I remembered that one too so I started kind of humming along. Then it got to the chorus. I just stopped singing. I just sat there staring at the screen. It felt like I was hearing the song for the first time. I can’t even describe how it made me feel. I just cried. Because, for once, I felt like somebody understood me, I felt like somebody cared. I didn’t feel alone. And since then, I stopped cutting myself and I stopped all of self-harm. I made a promise. I literally said aloud, “I swear to you Gerard, I will never hurt myself again. No matter what.” Now MCR helps me through all of my hard situations. No matter how bad it is, all I have to do is think about something Gee, Frank, Bob, Mikey, or Ray said and I feel so much better. My friends turned to the ‘popular’ life and called me names, I thought of what Gee said “Hey Girls, you are beautiful.” I felt better. My grandparents turned out to be something I hate most (Homophobias), and I almost did something I would regret, but I thought about the song Teenagers and I just walked away. My mum started to try and change who I was, I just thought of how MCR wasn’t afraid to be MCR and I felt better. In a way, MCR had taught me all of those cliché life rules. Don’t do drugs, violence is not the answer, all of it I learned from MCR. And I’m proud of it. One of my friends asked me what I want to do before I die, my reply: “I want to meet My Chemical Romance and say ‘thank you’.” And I swear, one day I’m going to meet them and tell them thank you for giving me my life back.

Kirsty’s “Saved by MCR” story

When I was 18 I went through a period of self harm and the way I got through it was through music and relying on God. Music has always been an emotional release for me. I remember when I was younger sitting relaxing while The Offspring blared out my stereo speakers. About 6 months later I became a Christian.

Things were great and I was enjoying life until I found that I didn’t fit the “Christian mould”. I wore black clothes, I listened to “loud” music, I didn’t say the “right words” and I thought differently. That’s when some Christians I knew started to change me. I slowly became a completely different person and eventually felt trapped. I tried to wear other colours but always seemed to go back to black. I tried to say the right things but it never seemed to come out right. I tried to listen to slower music but it was all so boring. I ended up in a place where I didn’t enjoy doing anything anymore. I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression. I felt like I was meant to be a different person to be a real Christian, but I eventually realised that this wasn’t the way God intended my life to be.

I developed a “meh” attitude and wore my black clothes proudly even though I knew people were looking at me strangely. I listened to my heavy metal Christian music even though I knew people would make a comment about it being “too loud” or something silly like that.
It wasn’t until I got back into MCR that things started to fall back into place.

I started watching music videos on YouTube and stumbled across MCR music videos. The first time I saw I’m not ok and Helena I was hooked and seeing them again it was like I’d stumbled upon something great. I started to remember how I felt when first watched these videos. Then I moved on to more MCR videos (I Don’t Love You, Teenagers, Ghost of You). I feel in love again and something sparked. I had found what made me excited and what made me me. People can call me emo or whatever, I don’t care anymore. MCR (and God) have made me realise that it doesn’t matter what other people think. Life is all about being true to yourself and doing what you love.

I want to make videos/films and work with computers, I don’t care how nerdy that it. I want to be moved emotionally by music, I don’t care how emo that makes me. I want to wear the clothes I feel comfortable in and not be effected by what other people think. MCR seem to have a “f*** you, I’ll do what I want” attitude. Its shown by the way they write songs about whatever they want, they make videos about whatever they want and they live life however they want. I want my life to be similar, but with less swearing =)

Misery…

My brother just died. I’m sure you are wondering why I am on here writing this now at a time like this, and honestly it’s because the only thing getting me through the night (it’s midnight here) is knowing I have My Chem to curl up and listen to.

I mentioned on here last year that my brother had Cystic Fibrosis and was waiting for a double lung transplant. He got that miracle last year and my comfort now is knowing that at least for one year of his life he was able to breathe normally. Tonight he died from an infection. Just a few days ago we had dinner together, and I remember him standing in the kitchen, leaning against the countertop laughing about how he was already done Christmas shopping plus had already wrapped everything. Just a few days ago he was smiling and alive and happy. That’s how quick shit happens. A few days ago we were planning Christmas dinner, talking about landscaping our yard in spring and he was playing with my kids and my niece and nephews.

Gone. Forever.

You know what… I have been through a lot of shit the past year, including nearly 6 months of hate mail and death threats from fellow My Chem fans about the Umbrella Academy ordeal. I chose to not lash out and to not say anything more on the issue, even to correct incorrect information. It isn’t worth it. You want to know why I do this… continue this through all the shit? It’s because there will always be shit. There will always be someone who is wrong, someone who doesn’t agree and some times that you wished you had said or done things differently. That is what life is. A string of shit happening in your life. What makes all the shit worth going through is the times in between. It’s those moments that are so wonderful that none of the shit can take the memory of that wonderful moment away. I get those wonderful moments doing this blog. Hearing the stories of people who were helped by this band and knowing that no matter what shit happens, the band always has been and always will be (in my belief) for the purpose of being there for us in these times of hardship.

Tonight it is Gerard, Frank, Mikey, Ray and Bob who are going to get me through this shit time. These five guys I have never met and will probably never meet are going to be the best friends I’ve ever had. Tonight they understand me. Tonight they get it, they’ve been there. They have been through this shit, and they carried on. Shit happens. It hurts, but shit happens every damn day.

My brother was… still is… my hero. He wasn’t supposed to reach the age of four. He made it to 34. He made his own path in life. When people said it couldn’t be done, he laughed as he accomplished it. When people said something was too difficult, he rolled his eyes and accomplished it in a way that made it look easy. When people said he shouldn’t, he did it anyway just to piss them off. He did it all with a personality that made everyone that met him fall in love with him. Animals loved him, children adored him and people of all ages were inspired by him.

I used to describe my brother to people who had never met him as someone that didn’t let the world make him, he made the world. I think really that’s what My Chem and it’s fans are all about. Don’t ever let anyone make you think you have to do it their way. When they say it can’t be done, laugh as you accomplish it. When they say it’s too difficult, roll your eyes and make it look easy. When they say you shouldn’t do it, do it just to piss them off. Be you, be strong, and above all be happy and appreciative and every moment you have on this earth to do those things. Eventually, shit happens. Until then, make every possible moment a wonderful memory to cherish and get you through the shit times.

I’m off to be comforted by some MCR.

Bex’s “Saved by MCR” story

Hello my name is bex Im 16 i live in he uk and here is my story,

 

Ok i was 14 when people really turned to pay attention to me, this wasnt good attention i was constantly threated by the other teenagers in my year i was pushed in to doors brusied daily physicly and mentaly. i became a part of a group of 6 girls we were “outcasted” as the populars labled us, we looked out for each other stood up for each other listened to all kinds of music.

One day there was this new kid phil he told me he loved me i laughed at him, i know it was cruel but i didnt know him and he was popular so it was just normal for me to laugh at them , next period he sat in frount of me as i was taking notes he turned to me with a knief in his hand, i stood  slowly trying to distance myself from him but he stood just staring from the knief then to me i screamed and shouted but the teacher just ignored me, my friend jess shouted for him but he was ” busy” at his computer the class turned watching him,the populars began to taunt me ” Stab the bitch” ” Get on with it phil” i stood perfectly still with fear when my rs teacher burst in, she took the knief from behind phil and took him to the head masters office. i wasnt spoken to by teachers they just left me to it and i was just shocked , thats when it started when the straw broke the camles back as the saying goes. The populars told me how they’d kill me if phil didnt every day they reminded me i was nothing.

As it got dark i looked aimlessly outside my window when it came up on y computer phil had my msn, he taunted me threated me and al i could do is cry, i  punched a hole in to my wall and it helped so much thats when i decided to start self harming when megan noticed it she sent me a song,  My chemical romance ” Im not Okay” it was so true to me i went in to town the next day and baught the cds, and a few t-shirts. it became an addiction i wanted to know everything about gerard frank ray bob and mikey. i found out gerard had sufered with alchol, so i turned to him when i thought about Self harming.

For a while it worked i was cut free for 4 months, until i was left totaly alone one day in school i was bullied worse than ever me and my family hadhad a massive argument and i was depressed, so i went to the chemist at break and baught as mainly painkillers as i could afford, iwent back and during lunch i took an overdose,  hid in  cubical and text my friends ” bury me in black, carry on Goodbye”   megan mitched her lesson in search for me she found me i nthe cubical i was still alive, she ran i nto the corridor and my oldhead of year ran in and broke the door down. i was sent to the nurse who called he paramedics, they told me i had a choice go with them and get cheked out or see a doctor , so i said id see a doctor i never did in the end. i was acompanyed home and my parents watched me constantly checking my bag. th only thign that stoped me trying again was Mcr, I sang the lyrics to myself eveywere and i got through it.

I still  Self harm two years  on but im not as bad as i was, all i know is that i’d be six feet under if it wasnt for them. My Chemical Romance I Love you! .

MCR Quotes You’ve Never Heard.

Alex’s “saved by MCR” story

This was sitting in my inbox way too long. My apologies!

I’m Alexandria Brown, I’m 19 years old. I am a HUGE fan of My Chemical Romance, which is how I found your blog thing, one day while surfing around the internet, and then while I was looking, I saw that, I believe you said it was your brother who had CF, and he was on the transplant list. Well, first off, I wish him the best! J I hope that he’s doing okay. Secondly, the reason why that caught my eye was that I actually have CF too.

I just also wanted to say and share that it has been My Chemical Romance to get me through the numerous meds and hospitalizations that go hand-in-hand with CF. They have had such a huge impact on my life, and it seems that they were able to get me through times when others couldn’t. It was their songs that got me through a chest tube, and surgeries, and just the day to day things.

I’ve been lucky enough to meet Frank after a few shows and thank him for all that he’s done for me, (I told him i had a breathing condition that required hospitalizations and that it was MCR to help get me through the times and he gave me a hug and said he hopes i breath better) and I was also lucky enough to meet Gerard when he came around with the Umbrella Academy, and it was wonderful to actually be able to personally thank them for the impact that they have truly had on me. They were both extremely amazing, and they took the time to hear me and actually listen to me, which are some of my happiest memories.  They are truly amazing and inspiring people.

I just wanted to share. Again, I hope that things are going okay for your brother.

-Alex

Some Strange MCR Moments Part 1. x3

Mama I’m A Big Girl Now

Gerard and his coffee

Here are some funny videos about Gerard and coffee.

The Way’s Love Their COFFEE! COFFEE! COFFEE!

Gerard On Coffee

More Gerard Foamy..

Pencey Prep: Heartbreak in Stereo

Thought I would post this for anyone interested in having the album from Pencey Prep (the band Frank was in before MCR).

You can buy it here

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0637872001929
Label: Eyeball
Manufacturer: Eyeball
MPN: 20019
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Eyeball
Release Date: November 26, 2002
Studio: Eyeball

Disc 1:

1. PS Don’t Write
2. Yesterday
3. Don Quixote
4. 10 Rings
5. Secret Goldfish, The
6. 8th Grade
7. 19
8. Trying To Escape The Inevitable
9. Lloyd Dobbler
10. Florida Plates

Album Description:
Pencey Prep was formed from the ex-members of local punk heroes Sector 12 and Stick Figure Suicide. They were a rare mix of punk, emo, and indie rock. Originally released in 2001, the band broke up shortly thereafter, and this title has been unavailable for over two years. Before bands like The Used and Thursday were mainstream successes, Pencey Prep was creating music that fused many styles together while keeping true to punk rock roots.