User blog comment:MightyUke416/Bell: Let's Talk Day/@comment-28913090-20190130195337/@comment-26485526-20190131010817

It’s crazy to think how sometimes reaching out and doing the right thing can sometimes lead to such negativity.

To the part of yourself that regrets being nice to this gay person because of the bullying you started to receive afterward, I would argue that doing nothing only would’ve had worse consequences for your mental health. You noted in your comment that for the month of July you were having nightmares about watching this boy kill himself and that you couldn’t handle it. Imagine if you had kept those feelings bottled up and not reached out. This was already having a tremendous impact on your mental health, and the longer you kept that inside, the more that guilt and those nightmares would’ve weighed on you to the poin where you might’ve broken for all you know.

Don’t ever regret reaching out and doing the right thing because quite honestly, I am proud of you for taking that step to change the errors of your ways. Those “friends” that started bullying you because you reached out to this person and started calling you “fat” and “gay,” there is something going on with them that you can’t control, but you can continue to work to be a better person.

I am so happy to hear that you are in a much happier place now, and I think it was really brave of you to come out and share your whole story like this and being so open about your struggles. The best way we can break down this stigma, and the best way for us to connect about this is through talking and sharing, so thank you very much for posting this. Take care <3