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Q: Female, 18.
I'm under the suspiscion that I might be suffering from depression - or something close to it. I have already been diagnosed about three years ago with hypothyroidsm, so perhaps this adds to the factor. I haven't been taking care of myself - more than usual - I procrastinate too much and then I have tiny breakdowns where I cry alone about how stupid and worthless I mean. Because I know in fact that I am the one doing things wrong, yet can't bring myself to fix things. I have extreme low self-esteem issues and I think I have many phobias that need taking care of - I can't stand being locked up, I hate large crowds because I feel uncomfortable, I fear loads of responsability, I have stage-fright even just to speak at times and I have a completely irrational fear of reptiles, amphibians and throwing up/vomit in general. I feel like I'm letting myself go and instead of pushing forward I'm being dragged back by my low spirits. I have been loathing going into Facebook simply because I see my friends being so happy and since I don't find anything happening to be happy, I get angry at them. Its horrible on my part. I'm a nice girl, but sometimes its hard to be so and I come to moments like these where I just don't want to do/be/think anything and just... dissappear. To magically have all my problems erased somehow... which only gets people angry at me or something and makes me feel worse. I just realized that my thoughts are being perhaps a bit toooo negative and I might actually need help here.
I can write about how your hypothyroidsm is making you mentally unstable but you already know that. You, as a human being, have all of the control to change your outlook on life/yourself/etc. I suffered from depression for a while and i learned this VERY simple trick. write down all of the things that you're upset about. Stressors, things that are making you mad, sad, annoyed, anything. Write them all on the pieces of paper. Now seperate them into things you can control and things you cant. This is allowing your to see things that are completely out of your control and you shouldn't beat yourself down about things you have NO CONTROL over then there are things that you see that YOU control. This will completely help you. You're not alone. You control your life.

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