The Dark Face of Love: How Love Can Ruin You ***Disclaimer: This topic is a little bit sensitive. You may find some photos and content disturbing or unpleasant. The person on this article is real and it was documented on the National Geographic.***
This is a real story of Katie who was 18 years old when she tried to kill herself by shooting her own face at the bathroom but failed to do so. She was alive but her face ended being **deform**. It was an unfortunate past of her suicidal attempts. Katie did it after she found out her boyfriend was texting another girl and on **March 25th of 2014**, Katie's boyfriend broke up with her. This has caused her to felt betrayed, cheated, invalid, replaceable. After she have shooted herself, she lose her nose, sinuses and forehead including the bones that forms her jaw and her front face was totally deformed. After I have seen her real life documentary on YouTube, I can't help but to feel sympathy to her situation. I was shocked at the same point disgusted without knowing the real story. I dive into the Google web to gather some informations about this girl and I found her real name, Katie Stubblefield. What Happened to Katie Stubblefield?
Due to Katie's face deformity after she shooted herself, she also developed a painful gut reaction and it is all because she was heart broken and suicidal after her boyfriend cheated to her when she was 18. She had undergo **face transplant**. It is actually my first time to hear about this. I cannot believe such thing exist. The world of science and surgery really improve nowadays. Katie got a new face from a **31 year old** who died of a **drug overdose**. As she got her new face, she can now chew the foods, swallow and breathe peacefully. After she had went into a face transplant, she needs to consistently take immunosuppressant drugs to make sure her body won't reject the new face. Her new face had give her hope and she have attended online colleges to start her new life again. She wanted to pursue her career at the same point to learn how to become a motivational speaker. ***She want to help and raise awareness about suicide and prevent people from doing what she have tried to do before.***
I know her story really feels sad and devastating. She had love her boyfriend so much that she is willing to take her own life after she found out that she got cheated. However, she didn't win from her plan. She survive from the suicidal attempts and she is lucky to be alive and breathing. Her face may not be the same anymore but she was given another chance to live in this world again. She will find the right person one day. The person who sees her as the center of the universe, the person who can see her worth, the person who will value her feelings and the person who will always choose her. Break-ups really sucks especially when you got **cheated**. You will be thinking what you are missing on life that the others have. You will feel worthless. It is so much painful especially when you have love the person so much. The one who made you whole is also the one capable of breaking you into pieces. ***"She does not look like her old self, but her actions, her personality, her interests and everything are very much the old Katie."- Katie's father*** This is a lesson that we should always check and look for our friends and families who are experiencing heartbreaks. That is the time where they are the most vulnerable and they need us the most. **Heartbreaks** are one of the leading causes of **suicide** worldwide and may it serve as an awareness that we should not ignore our heartbroken friends and families because we don't know what was currently running inside their minds. **February 15, 2022**
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This is truly unfortunate situation for her. I can't help but think why she did it to herself. Poor and low mentality regarding love really kills us sometimes.
She was 18 during that time and she was driven by intense emotions, I hope somebody had stop her but even her mother failed to.
Aaah that's why I am scared of making boyfriend and still single
I understand you. I am also scared to enter relationships because nowadays cheating is rampant.
Ang mga kabataan tlaga oo, akala nila yung love na dinaranas nila yun na yun. im glad nabuhay pa sya. Sana magingblesson yun nag karamihan,
Kaya nga ang swerte niya dahil buhay pa siya, bihira lang tong ganito and siguro may reason kung bat di siya namatay.
Kaya may mga ganyan ding mga bata kasi di sila nakakahanap ng pagmamahal sa loob ng bahay nila e. Kaya pag nahanap nila sa iba yun at ganon nalang sila kadaling i-dump nakakaramdam sila ng walang halaga. 🥺 been there pero di naman ako nagtempt mag suicide hehe pero naiisip ko yung pag nachugi ako magiging masaya kaya sila :)
Kapag nachugi ka kelzy, of course malulungkot ang lahat. Walang natutuwa sa biglaang death and I know you are in a happy relationship right now.
Yesterday, heart's day. The guy whom I love broke my heart and I read this today. I'm not feeling well right now but I'm still thankful that I never think of killing myself just because someone rejected or left me. It may be is one of the most painful situation in life, but we need to realize that there are 7 billion people in this world right now, someone, somewhere, there is one person that is really meant for us.
I felt sorry to hear that and I hope you will get through it. Killing is not really good, you don't have to exchanged your life for the pain. You will find the right one on the right time.
Yes, I know I can do it 😊 thank you for ur words sydney!
You are welcome! Stay strong and be positive always no matter what.
I am aware of this one before but I thought she was in a car accident that her face got deformed. I read it wrong. Now that I know, her heart was broken and it was an attempted suicide. So sad, that many people are getting depressed about love as everyone is willing to love someone with all their heart, they even can give their life and when the love is gone, they are thinking they should end their life too because there is not sense in living without love.
She is very lucky that she is still alive. It's really scary to be heartbroken, you will lose all the sanity you have and that's where suicidal thoughts appear.
I can imagine all the pain she must have gone through... I really feel sorry for her!
Same here. I cannot believe this is all what happen to her after a break up and I want this article to inspire everyone not to do the same thing.
It really sucks to be cheated but we must be strong not to harm ourselves, good thing she had new life again with her new face.
After reading her life story, I really feel the strong regrets she have done to herself. Her face looks like a monster before but now she looks normal.
This is really a sad story but may also give us lesson to learned. Thank you for sharing and God Bless. 😇