I used to be depressed, what is your story?

im a 14 year old guy and just a year ago i used to be extremely depressed over home life and the fact that i hated myself, i used to self harm and cry myself to sleep and i used to be overweight but when people started teasing me i lost soo much weight,and didnt eat alot, but i go over all that by self motivation and alot of help from my school mentors and i am perfectly fine and healthy. i just wanted to know what sort of life have you lead and if you were depressed what were you like and how did you get over it?