This Proabably Sounds Stupid....But I Had Like A Really Bad Depression Period Where I Just Sat And Stared Into Space And I Used To Cry Myself To Sleep And Stuff But Then I Was Watching QTV And They Showed 'Papercut' And It Was Like Totally Cool So I Went And Got The Album And Would Just Sit And Listen To That Song 4 Hours.....Then Be4 I Knew It I Felt Better About A Lot Of Things.......And Started Posting Stuff On These Message Boards And Everyone Was Like Really Helpful So Now I Just Listen To 'Papercut' An Awful Lot.....When I Heard Crawling I Didnt Really Like It But Papercut Is Just Like Totally Important To Me.

I Know Some Guys Related More To Crawling But Papercut Was Very Important To Me And I Was Totally Grateful 4 It.......Would U Believe It But I Didnt Even Know Who Limp Bizkit Was At That Time.....LOL
..........From Lp Fan Bored

Gosh, One Song? All Of Them Are Extrememly Significant To Me..
If I Had To Pick It Would Probabaly Be In The End. It Just Describes Me In General...

Linkin Park Has Done Alot For Me Trough Thier music. There Was A Time Where I Would Write Poetry like Crazy, Then I Got Into Stories And A Whole Ther Bunch Of Things While I Was Being Creative....Then I It This "Phase"-If You Must- Where Things That People Said Really Cut Deep And I Didn't Want To Hear Anymore Of Their "Poetry Sucks And Writing Sucks And You Suck" And That's Not Even The Stuff They Really Said-...
But Then When I First Heard Linkin park On The Radio I Wasn't Much Of A Fan Of OSC. A Bunch Of The Same Kids That Teased Em About My Poetry Actually Liked Them And Seeing This I Think I Didn't Give LP Much Of A Chance-Which Was Prejudiced Of Me But...
Then Crawling Came Out And I Realy Liked It. The Video Really Spoke To Me, And I Just Loved The Charisma And Compassion Is Chesters Voice . I Borrowed The Album From A FrIend Of Mine (Who Isn't A Big Fan) And I Totaly Loved It. I Guess Everything Just Evolved From That. I Listen To Thier cd All The Time And I'm Not Even Close To Being Sick Of It.

LP Gave Me Back The Confidence To Write Again...And I Could Never Thank Them Enough For It.

Hybrid Theory Helped Me Find Out Who I Am, Basically, Cuz Now I Write, Do Well In School, And Be Creative For Me-And No One Else-It Taught Me That I Am Worthy Of Respect And If ppl Don't Give Me That, They Just Aren't Worth It. The Most Important Thing It Taught Me Was That I Can Do Things Better By Myself Than In Groups-It Brought Out In Individual And Independant Girl Inside Me And By Far That Is The Best Thing Anyone Has Ever Taught Me...

Ok, I'll Stop Rambling Now...
..........From LP Fan hybrid_gurl1

I first got into LP because OSC expressed pretty much how I felt 24-7 then when I heard ITE and My December, Linkin Park single handedly, completely turned my life around. There was a time when I thought about making myself come as close to death as possible and if I went to far so what, now I look back on myself at that time and I sometimes cry, because had it not been for LP I probably wouldn't be here anymore.

God Bless you Linkin Park!!
................From LP Fan RSpimp

I would have to say that papercut has helped me out with a certain period in my life. I know that the song is about paranoia but i interpretted the lyrics slighty different. This may sound rediculous to some people but i was going through a realy hard time with my first year in college, i was trying so hard to be perfect and get good grades and putting so much pressure on myslef. I would stay up all night doing hoomework, not go out on weekends and basicaly punish myself for not getting the grades i wanted. I would cry and cry, and mentely exhaust myself to the point where i was taking it out on everyone i loved, and basicaly driving myself into a depression. When i listen to papercut i felt that i could realate to the lyrics because i couldnt get away from this feeling of dissapointment i had in myself. I would try and take it easy but it was always there, i couldnt get away from it. Listening to papercut and singing along to the lyrics just made me feel better, in a way it inspired me to believe in myself and not give up. Now every day before class i put linkin park in and fele more confident in what i am doing.

THANK YOU LINKIN PARK!!
..............From LP Fan Amanda P

A few years ago, I started to run from my problems, and that worked for me until late 2000. You can't run forever, and I guess I couldn't any longer.

I began to fall into a deep, deep depression, and tried every escape mechanism I had ever used, and nothing worked (not drugs or anything, though...never tried that stuff). Then, in early or mid 2001, right when I was giving up, a copy of Hybrid Theory kind of showed up at my house by itself. I identified with the entire album so much, and also with every other song I have heard by them, that I have been able to use their music to work through my problems (or at least start to).

So, I guess their entire catalog has helped me...and I hope the next album can too.....
.................From LP Fan Gemz

One Step Closer: This is my song man. This song was the reason that i didn't push all the way down on the razor blade. I was so depressed that i watched a home movie and didn't know who i was. I was sitting on a chair in my room, (I was already obessed with LP before this but left my cd in Mass. i live in N.H.) I had an exacto knife on my wrist and decided this is the end. Then ONE STEP CLOSER came on and i was on the edge. I guess that while i was singing, cring and being depressed that i craved a cross in my wrist. I'm not proud of craving it but i'm glad i didnt kill myself. It's a good thing that no body saw my wrist cuz it was deep. I got my cd back and everything's a little better. Well there's one of my my kinda "storys". Hopefully more people will post their kinda "story's".
................From LP Fan Hybrid_gyrl...

YEA!!!!!! It's One Step closer too! I was about to kill myself. My life was a total mess and I just couldn't take it anymore. I hated everything about my life, my self and everything that I did and the way everything turned out. And I was sitting on my bed thinking about how I could kill myself and the radio was on. and than One Step Closer came on, and I just got hooked on it. and the guy on the radio said that this song was by Linkin Park, and they just made a CD called Hybrid Theory. And after 2-3 days, I went downtown to buy it, and I just listened to this song over and over again. And than I started to listen to the whole CD and listened to the lyrics, and I just realized that I'm not the only1 that was going through some shitty time. So I just started to appreciate (didspell it right) my life again and here I am! So this is my story!
..................From LP Fan MikeIsCute!

Crawling: The first time I saw it on MTV I related to the girl in the video as she just looked like me, in her expressions and her emotions. I was abused too and never got over the experience of it, and could never deal with my emotions and people asking me how i felt about the situation, i just didnt know how i felt about anything at all. when i heard 'crawling' for the first time i related to it straight away as if the song was taking me through my emotion and i began to understand everything that i was keeping inside.Now i can deal with my emotions better because of 'crawling'.
...............From LP Fan Star

A Place For My Head!!
I really liked this girl and I told her how I felt about her and she put me down, and I felt so bad that day at work, I got home and played that song and I felt much better after that. Thanks for the song LP!!!!
...............From LP Fan LPP0D1Fan

I usually fight with my mother. once i had a big one with her because she was pressing me too much with my homework, and i couldn't cry loud, cuz she'd hit me. finally, i turned on the radio and i found in the end, and i could relate to it tin some way. it was so good, and that also made me stop being a teenybopper. there are also these terrible days when i've done terribly at school, when i can't stand my classmates, and when i fight with my mom and she treats me very bad, and i listen to by myself and it's so much better. i can also relate to one step closer (once i analyzed the lyrics andi almost cried) and papercut (sometimes my mum is like vigilating me like a face beneath my skin hehehe) and well, almost the whole record. i guess that the problem is with my mom, i mean i love her, but sometimes she's so intolerant, and i feel that God has sent LP as my guardian angels to survive those times. namárië..
..............From LP Fan Nightly Elf

Damn, i can relate to you alot on that one! i have problems w/ my mom too. not only is she busy/unavailible most of the time, but she blows up in my face whenever i do the smallest thing wrong. ...and what i mean by that is full blown yelling, screaming, and cursing in my face to the point where i break down and cry right on the spot...and then she just yells even harder @ me for being a crybaby, and sometimes she'll even hit/slap me too. @ one time i was @ the point where i wanted to die...i didn't go so far as to comming up w/ a way to kill myself, but i was thinking everything would be better if i was just dead. then i saw the vid for osc way back in oct. 00, and it just clicked, and it made me feel better. shortly after that i got a copy of HT and i immediately fell in love w/ their music b/c i could relate to every single one of the songs so well, esp. on those miserable shitty days.
....................From LP Fan Evil Rabbit

ByMyself. People always made fun of me, this song didnt let em get to me. Crawling, too. I dont know about being abused, but something else could be crawling inside, like hatred to someone who puts you down all the time craling in your skin that sometimes makes you wanna explode on them and burn them, crawling is such a powerful song, it can be used for anything.
.................From LP Fan Kaifybeats

ONE STEP CLOSER by LP and Last Resort by Papa Roach. It kinda related to the kinda thoughts when I used to cut myself. IN THE END was a song I used to listen to when someone called me stupid or a dumbass, seriously. . . because I work a lot and then when someone puts me down I get pist, because I worked so hard to get to the place where I am today. But, I try not to think of things like that that much. I try not being suicidal anymore because I felt so much pain when someone close to me killed themselves, and if someone does care about me, I don't want them to go through the same misery.
....................From LP Fan RockinAsianQT

Well... A place for my head and Pushing Me Away helped me a lot of times when I was down and depressed... I cant help my self to feel better once i've heard them...
....................From LP Fan Di

I have 2 songs:
*everybody hurts* by REM and *pushing me away* by LINKIN PARK, they help me when im at the bottom of my black hole and cant see a way out.
.....................From LP Fan Harmonyyuk

I can basically relate to the whole album, but there are 2 songs that have helped me the most. The first one is By Myself. All throughout grade school I was depressed. I had very few friends, nothing to live for, I was reaching the suicidal point. I was made fun of for no good reason. I had been labeled a nerd in the first grade, and once you are labeled, there is no going back. People would not accept me for who I was because of the image people had placed on me. I couldn't accept myself either. I couldn't rely on myself to do anything. I couldn't figure out what to do with the people at school and all of my other problems. The fact that I was very depressed didn't help either. These thoughts stayed with me through freshman year as well. I couldn't get over my past and what people had done to me. I couldn't trust them. Then I picked up Linkin Park's album one day. I heard that song and I cried hysterically for hours because it described me and my past so much. Every single word is something that I've gone through. And by listening to that song, my aggressions came out, and it made me feel better and a little more at peace with myself everytime. High school is better now because people accept me and I have friends, but everytime I hear that song I remember my past and I cry. But that song has just helped me in so many ways. It helped me accept my past and move on. Linkin Park's music has basically made me who I am today. And I owe my life to them for that. The other song is Crawling. The lyrics also describe myself and my past. I was so confused and I was lost in myself. The refrain says that "crawling in my skin, these wounds they will not heal, fear is how I fall, confusing what is real" I had so many mental wounds, and they would not disappear. I was so depressed. I was so afraid of what was going to happen to me and of people deceiving me, that I couldn't see who my real friends were, or anything real for that matter. I couldn't figure out what was going on in my life. Crawling helped me express what i was feeling, it inspired me to take control of my life and to not live like I was anymore. There was no use in being depressed, it only made me worse. "Against my will I stand beside my own reflection" I did. I didn't like who I was. Again Linkin Park's album helped me discover myself. I love them and their music and I always will. Thank you to Linkin Park!
.....................From LP Fan: Amanda R.

I used to suffer with severe depression, and have done since the age of 7. I got into LP in June/July 2000 but it wasnt til I heard Crawling that I realised I wasnt by myself. They stopped me from doing the bad stuff, E.X: Taking my own life. They were there when I thought I was nothing, they gave me the drive and ambition I have now, and they made me believe in myself when I thought all was lost. Without them I still believe I would be six foot under. Thanks LP- I dont know where I'd be without you :)
...................From Lp Fan Emma

I am not a popular person, everyone has always judged me, hated me. I never let that get to me.My father did when I was nine and I have a problem grasping and understanding religion. This made me an outcast because I live in a very christian-oriented town.I was hateful all the time I had no friends.I was paranoid of rumors .Of secrets getting out. Everybody seemed so false. when I got heavy into Linkin Park's music and I heard By Myself I was overwhelmed with the accuracy. The song described how I felt so well, it was unbelivable. I feel really close to the band now and they are my nuber one reason to smile.
...................From Lp Fan Mia

Well I have to say the song that helped me out was "with you". It reminds me of my dad. How he's not really there for me and It seems like he doesnt try hard enough to try to see me more offten. I really started to cry with the lyrics and stuff. "Even though your so close to me you're still so distant and I cant bring u back" well I just love that song and also "hybrid theory" I've already gone through 3 copies just with playing It over and over again. Either it would get sctrached or I would play It ALOT! well i just wanted to say that LP r my fav. band and they mean so much to me! My mom said at first that "It was just a phase" that i would get into other bands and i wouldn't like them N E more. SHE WAS WRONG!!! I started liking them in 2000. Well 2 years Is a long phase huh? Well bye peoplez! LP4EVA!!!!!!!!! love LP,
............From LP Fan Kristin AkA. LnknprkGdss( linkin park godess)

I was on ur page and then I saw "Lp helped me" .....Lp helped me too....I always thought that I must kill myslef....because I had problems with my parents,problems with myself and all that things....My life was only shit....but then I heard Linkin Park,"Runaway"......and it maked me stronger and then I bought their album,I really listen to the album the whole day....Linkin Park's like drugs,but the diffrence to real drugs is that Linkin park doesn't destroy u,it's the opposite,they help u!!And because of all that,I love Linkin Park and I only live for Linkin Park and Chester....My life's better since I heard Linkin park and so I want to say thank u to Linkin Park!!THX!!I love them!! Thank also to u (eva,or what's ur name?) that u made that link....sorry that I can't speak English very well,u must know,I'm from Austria/Vienna....
...................From Lp Fan Miriam

I saw your site so i thought i would look at it, and when you put LP helped me it was amazing that Linkin Park's songs helped a lot of people. I have gone through a lot of stuff in my life and they really helped me through their lyrics. It gave me hope that hey they went through so much, im not the only one! it gave me some comfort and has helped me make it through these trials in my life. Personally the ones that really stick out for me is Runaway (I was going through this point where i was always falsely acused) Crawling, that songs amazing, PLace for my head, and well all of them has put an affect on me. Linkin Park is seriously the best band in my eyes and just are amazing song writers and Chester Bennington has the best voice that i have ever heard.

...................From LP fan, Maritta

I was a little depressed when I heared the song One Step Closer. I thought it was pretty cool ("I need a litle room to pray"). It was after a while that I heared Crawling. I thougt that was something too. After I heared In The End I wanded the cd and when I baught the cd I was releaved that I had it 'caus it helped me a lot. I saw some videos on the tv, I took them on video. Now I have 3 cds and I am glad! I think that Chester and Mike are a great combination - I don't want them to quit. LOVE THEM !!! I love Chester too ...
............................From Lp Fan RLizzy (from Belium)

1st, before I say anything else, I know that this sounds cheesy, but it's true. LP is just 1 of those bands that saved my life. Their music is really great, Chester has a- I don't know a better way to describe it- beautiful voice, and they're all really talented. Papercut helped get me thru those times when I got that feeling that I could never make it anywhere. My December was like when I was lonely, cos I'm really a loser and stuff as far as popularity goes, and at times I'd give up anything to have a really good friend that I could relate to, and My December was just like "HOLY SHIT, I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT!" Then there's In The End. I know it's about a relationship with a girl that fell apart, but it hit me in a kind of different way. I don't get along w/ my dad, and I used to feel like it was my fault, and that I wasn't good enough. (I told you it was cheesy!) But In The End made me figure out that "In the end/ It doesn't even matter" It wasn't just their music, either. When I really felt like letting go, I was reading Chester's bio, and I read about how he was on drugs and got abused as a child and I was like "Holy shit, this is nothing compared to what he's been thru, if he made it thru that, I can make it thru this." I just felt the need to share that.
...........................From Lp Fan Caitlin

hi i just join your group and was reading your message board. I would like to say how lp also changed my life. And i know this might not sound true, but it is. I was abused when i was young but someone i knew and has left a big scar in my heart. I haven't recovered from it fully. I felt like commiting suicide many times, until i heard "Crawling" i can really relate to it. I was scared to say anything and i didn't have friends. I was always made fun of in school. And school was just to tough to deal with. SO many problems were happening at once, i didn't know what to do. That girl in the video was how i felt how i was treated.I was so hurt i cried to sleep,didn't eat and was always depressed. If it wasn't for Linkin Park i would probably have commited suicide. I know this must sound like i made it up, but i didn't. It was their music that helped me deal with the abuse. I'm greatful for my life and that they helped me. THANKS LINKIN PARK, GOD BLESS YOU!
...........................From Lp Fan Ruth

Breaking the habit really helped me through a tough period. I felt as if i didn't fit in and i started to become really depressed. Listening to breaking the habit though made me literally break the habit of the depression i was going through. Chester having one of, if not the best, voices in the industry made it help as well. I felt as if he was really saying what i was feeling and i'm fine now. Of course every other LP song helped me through as well but that got through to me the most. Lying from you also helped so i'm soooo greatfull to Linkin Park
............................From Lp Fan Deb Debs

Every song LP Plays has some sort of Dealing with everything i have felt in the past 2 years. My Parents divorced a while ago and I started listenening to them when they were called Xero. I dont hate any of LP's songs. In Fact i love them all! i Love the band and i am eternally greatful they've been there for me when friends and family could not. I one point in my life i felt suicidal...LP had an effect on me to the point where i felt like i had a reason to be here. Im making a band now in tribute to them! I LOVE LINKIN PARK. I have every song they ever came out with! even those LPU Songs like Dedicated and A.06. GREAT BAND!!!!!
.....................From CRAZED LP MANIAC Gary (glpb88@comcast.net)

My{Dcmbr calmes me it embodys how I feel, it keeps me sane (literally). I can meditate to it or cry my eyes out to it. Its probably the one LP song i can fall asleep to, which helps alot when i cant sleep. I put on my headphones stick my CD player on repeat and listen to it all night. Its also the best song to listen to when u cant stand any more yelling because you can crank it up as loud as you want and it wont kill ur ears. Because there are no really harsh drum beats or guitar riffs (which i LOVE by the way), but its so calming just to hav a little change in the way they write and sing. I've been told countless times i need 2 b on anti-depressants but 4 some reason my mother refuses and since im under 18 i cant get them. LP is really my anti-depressant i know it sounds really really cheesey but LP is my life and with out them id b dead. Id lik to thank you for putting that link up because its good 2 kno that ur not alone when it comes 2 LP and how u feel bout them. So thanx it really helps 2 kno there r sum LP fans jus lik me. bye now
...........................From Lp Fan Aria Niayz

hey evry1,
Nobody's listening is a song dat describes me da most coz the lyrics in that song really make me feel wot chester is feelin 2! no one really takes my advice so i would like 2 thank lp for that
...........................From Lp Fan tasha aka hybrid gal or lp demon

I've gone thru some pretty hard times. I always felt people where talking about me and i felt as if my best friend was betraying me and like i was going no where in my life my parents never supported me with what i wanted to do they just laughed and said to stick to reality. I started to get depressed and I was getting into fights with people and as i started to get depressed i didnt really pay attention to anyone and a few people started pushing me around tryin to boss me around then i started to listen to Linkin Park and the song "Hit The Floor" really made me open up and learn that i wont let nobody push me around or lie to me and just to stand up for myself. But all there songs helped me out this one just helped me out the most and i love Linkin Park and im just thankful everyday for them there music helps me through out everything.
I love LINKIN PARK.
...........................From a true thankful fan Kaila... thanxz

think the song that most helped me was "breaking the habit" off of meteora. when i first heard the song it was creepy at how well it related to my "problems" and the way i have been feeling lately, now its like a habit to just listen to that song. when things were just goin bad, and goin in the opposite direction that i wanted and i started havin these problems that i would have never known how to deal with listenin to that song eventually gave me the power to try to break my habit, cuz i just got tired of bein the way i was..but all of linkin parks songs help, cuz i love them all, linkin park in general helps me with my probs, cuz they tight like that :)
...................................From Lp Fan MESTupurlowrder8@aol.com

If You Want To Share A Story, About A Song That Has Helped You Through A Hard Time E-Mail Me MikeFan4Eva211@yahoo.com & I'll Post It.. Thanx!!**