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Depressed or just Lonely?
Posted Wednesday October 28 2015, 9:09 pm
Hi, I'm a 14 year old girl which will probably put you off of this question immediately. I'm not like a lot of other girls who would say I'm depressed just because it's 'cool' nowadays. For that, I am ashamed of those people because I know from a close family member that depression isn't fun or anything good.
I'm not asking for pity or because I want attention. I just want to know if this is serious enough to go to a doctor without wasting their time on yet another teenager who thinks their life is crap.
My life isn't crap. Well, I mean it could be a lot worse. My mum and I aren't rich and we live on minimal benefits but we get by. Now we have an extra mouth to feed, it's a bit tougher for my mum and she's slee...
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Help geting out of a rut
Posted Tuesday October 20 2015, 8:03 pm
I am having a difficult time getting out of what I think is a rut. I feel depressed. I am happily married to an amazing man, my high school sweet heart. My husband is in the military and is often gone. Recently 5 friends moved to the state we live in and lived with us for too long, almost a year to be exact. They now cut all communication with us which we honestly don't mind as they really upset us for the fact that they did not respect us or our home. Anyways I feel that my depression comes from knowing I will be alone once again. I am completely not motivated for anything. I been battling my weight for 3 years and I reach my goal but then I binge when my husband comes home from deployments and I gain the weight back. I'm often comparing ...
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Depression Aneixty
Posted Monday October 19 2015, 8:58 am
23 Female.
Back in June my boyfriend broke up with me. We were in a 5 year realtionship and it was really hard for me to adjust. I now realize i deserved a lot better. He never took care of me i was always taking care of him needless to say he didnt desreve me as a person. Which is fine i am over that but during that time i was so depressed. I also suffer from depression and aniexty but never addmited to my problems, i thought it was always normal feeling this way. My mother tried telling me i was tempoary depressed and i told her she didnt understand. 4th of July weekend i was feeling at my lowest point and i looked at my medicine cabinet wondering what i could take to kill myself. I was in the right state of mind and stoppe...
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Body Image: Is too skinny even a thing?
Posted Sunday October 18 2015, 3:41 pm
(14/f) Is too skinny even a thing? Well apparently I am and no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to put on any weight. It's really annoying and kind of depressing how my friends are curvy with a nice body and they seem to joke that they're fat and take the piss out of my lack of it.
I have little boobs and a small bum and I hardly ever get a second glance while my friends get wolf whistles. Now what I really want to ask is: How can I accept my body image or is there another way to put it on?
Does protein stuff work? Or am I doomed to eat carbs for the rest of my life?
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Homeschooled with no job or hobbies and feeling empty.
Posted Friday October 16 2015, 11:44 am
Things have been bland for me lately. At my current age and location I'm unable to work, get a license, or attempt to get my GED. For the next six months I'll be sitting all day every day in my home as I've done for the last five years. Even when I'm of legal age, I'll have no means of getting a ride to a job, and my parents say they don't want me working. This means no saving up for anything; even college.
Besides that, there's also the problem of not having anything to do during the day. Every day it's eat, sleep, study or play games. I feel so sheltered and frustrated sometimes, but what can I do? I don't have friends to see, and going places takes money that we don't have. Times like this make me wish I was in public sch...
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BMI of 15.6
Posted Thursday October 15 2015, 4:37 pm
im 18 f and find my weight a very difficult subject. people keep telling me how skinny i am but i just don't see it. when i look in the mirror i see a mildly chubby girl staring back at me. i was concerned about what people were sayings i decided to calculate my bmi and it said that it was 15.6. i can see that this is probably unhealthy but the problem is food scares me. i don't like eating a lunch and will only eat small portions for breakfast and dinner. for snacks i drink tea or water. whenever i eat a piece of food i think about how the fat will stick to my body and make me look huge. my mom keeps trying to force me to eat, she shouts at me and makes me cry but i just can't bring myself to gain weight. i don't want to look fat or disgus...
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I want to run away, what do I do?
Posted Monday October 12 2015, 2:44 pm
22/f
My first counselor was in high school, she saw that I had a hint of depression. During this time, I was 18 years old. I was taking 27 credit hours (wasn't a choice because I was also a high school student), working 24 hours/week, and my boyfriend at that time and I weren't doing so well. The next two years, my depression had worsen, my boyfriend (same one from high school) was "dragging me on" and I was waiting for him and didn't completely leave him until I was 21. During this process, I didn't realize that my well-being was winding downward because I was so focused on my relationship. Since then I've been having trouble feeling better. I still feel very sad and I sometimes feel the need to cry for no apparent...
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Stressed High School Student
Posted Tuesday October 6 2015, 6:06 pm
Hi, there. I'm a high school student, and I guess I'm seeking advice. I always liked school in elementary and middle school; I hated the weekends and I'd stay after school for all sorts of clubs. But now, I hate it. Everyone's always lecturing to me about how 'these are the best years of my life' or telling me that 'this is as easy as it gets', but dear God, I can't imagine it getting any worse than this. I'm miserable in school? and out of school, all I do is dread and dwell on how I have to go back in a couple days. I have no motivation to do homework or practice my flute or do anything productive. I feel like this is all for nothing, like my life isn't going anywhere and I'm going to end up a stay-at-home mom with unfulfilled dreams or w...
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How to deal with low self esteem?
Posted Friday October 2 2015, 9:23 pm
So I have really really low self-esteem to the point where when someone calls me pretty (which is very very rare) I never believe them. The only people that really compliment me are my parents and it's never about my face it's always about how curvy my body is, which is annoying. So basically growing up I've never thought I was pretty at all, my elementary school was kindergarten to grade 8 so I went to a school with the same judgemental people all my life. I remember in grade 3 this guy would always make fun of me and you know the saying "if someone makes fun of you they have a crush on you" but this wasn't the case it was flat out bullying. In grade 5 I remember this other guy said his brother said I looked like a man. In grade ...
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I don't want to live anymore. I just need advice on what I should do.
Posted Friday September 25 2015, 6:22 pm
I am currently going through so much and I am only 18. Everything for me is falling apart, no one cares about me, no one tries to help, and I an so alone. All I can think about is taking my own life. I don't have anyone who will miss me, or anything. I don't have anything to look foward, I just feel like giving up. I've tried so hard to stop thinking about it, but I can't. It's like it's already stuck in my mind. I harm myself every night, in hopes of actually dying but it's not working. I just can't take anything anymore, it hurts to feel so alone, it hurts to be so alone. I want to give up, I want to be gone. I just wish I had someone who cared, someone who loved me. But I don't, and that's driving me towards actually doing what's been on...
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I don't know what to do anymore
Posted Wednesday September 9 2015, 9:48 pm
My mom tells at me constantly, then pretends like nothing ever happened. She calls me names, one time she kept screaming that I'm pathetic, over and over again, I just can't take these insults anymore. I started cutting every time she breaks me down. I don't make them very deep, but just enough so they bleed. I just hate her so much, if I could, I would try to get some space for a while, but I can't, usually when she does this is at night, and I can't get out because of my curfew. I did try to talk to her about it, but she said it was my fault. I have really bad grades, I just don't care about them anymore. Sorry if there are so many questions in here, but I just really need to vent, and get some advice. BTW I'm a 13 year old female, if that helps.
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I don't feel female?
Posted Thursday September 3 2015, 8:39 pm
I'm 12 year old female(?)...let me explain.
Ever since I was young, like in pre school I thought like a man. In pre school i bonded with females, but boys just seemed to get me more. I played with trucks, liked to destroy, never broke into my mom's make up, etc. In kindagarten, I didn't care about my appearance and I liked digging up worms. I didn't care about my looks and never felt I fit in with my gender. Girls, they like to be neat, I don't. And now, it just gets stronger. I'm constantly being reminded to "act like a girl". I've always tried but it was always awkward. I played with barbies but I tried my best to turn them male, and preferred making action figures fight. I liked video games that men were supposed...
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I think I have OCD?
Posted Sunday August 30 2015, 5:46 am
Hi, I am from Australia and am a teenager. I think I have OCD. I have done some research on it. I have taken online quizzes, and they say I most likely have OCD. I have read what phsycologists say OCD is and I relate. Sometimes I feel so controlled that I cry. These thoughts come in to my head, that something bad might happen if I don't do something. I haven't told my parents about this because it's too hard for me. Sometimes I walk past, say, a doorway, and I might look at something and a bad thought comes into my head, so I have to walk back and think something different. Sometimes I have to tap something a certain number of times, because I feel like if I tap it a certain number, then something bad will happen. I don't want to go to a do...
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I just want to die
Posted Thursday August 27 2015, 4:52 pm
Life sucks, my dad hates me, my sister hates me, my brother has autism i have very little friends school is starting soon and i KNOW i will get bullied. I hate myself and a lot of people i thought were my friends end up hating me. My mom doesn't care and thinks all my problems are invalid. I am always sad and happiness never lasts. I'm a 12 year old girl BTW...I feel like no one loves me. I guess I'm just hoping for a reason to live...any ideas?
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What do I do?
Posted Sunday August 16 2015, 9:58 am
I dont see the other side of the world anymore. I only see the negative or bad side. I can see all the lies people told me its like seeing through them but you only see the negative. And the environment around me I feel like it was all a lie.
I dont know the truth anymore. I feel like that this world deserves to end with its society and all the lies.
What am i gonna do?
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why do people glorify depression, self harm, and eating disorders?
Posted Wednesday August 5 2015, 8:15 pm
I'm done with it. It's a terrible message for people suffering from this stuff.
Reality of depression: a mental disorder caused by bullying, abuse, etc where the victim can't feel happy, and is always sad. This person needs to get help and heal.
What it is showed as: an emo kid who is a very shy and misunderstood, a great trait where the amazing emo is deep and poetic. This person should continue on with it because it's romantic and beautiful.
Reality of self harm: something extremely serious, caused by something so intense and traumatizing the victim wants to end his own life. This person needs help (right fucking now)
What it is showed as: something an emo kid does, where he "paints a pictu...
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Zoloft confusion
Posted Tuesday July 21 2015, 4:33 pm
23/f
I have recently asked a question about when I was first prescribed Zoloft, I basically said I was upset my boyfriend broke up with me after almost 5 years I was so upset. During my time with my ex and before and for what I can remember I have always been depressed I always thought about sucicide I always thought what everyone's lives would be like without me. I selfharmed myself nothing crazy I would just hit myself punch myself in the face I would pinch myself for the pain telling myself I was not worthy. I thought about cutting but never did it. No one knew about this I would do it at work hiding it I would do it when my ex would sleep I would do it constantly I thought it was normal because I always felt this way. ...
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Am I wrong for shutting down?
Posted Tuesday July 14 2015, 3:09 pm
Hello, I'm a 22 year old girl and I think I've had a pretty rough couple years. From my mom passing away from cancer when I was 18 to my sister being told she had cancer at only 24. Let me start from the beginning. When my mom passed 4 years ago I had to assume the responsibilities of keeping the household clean, taking care of my 9 yr old brother at the time and making sure dinner was ready when my dad got home after I left my own job. During that time my dad would have dinner after work and go to the bar have a couple drinks with his friends and come home pretty tipsy. My job was to make sure my little brother didn't get him back since my dad always had a bad temper. My little brother was dealing with things pretty well for a 9 yr old. Al...
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Fear of balloons
Posted Friday July 10 2015, 7:14 pm
Since I remember myself I was afraid of balloons. I can't stand the sound they do when they pop. I totally freak out and start sweating and shaking when something like that happens.(The same happens with fireworks, too) I'm not afraid of the balloon as an object but I can't be near them because I think they will pop anytime. This ruins my life. I can't go at parties etc. I need your advice about how to overcome it. I tried doing it myself but after a balloon popped in my face I don't want to blow them up again. I went to a pshygologist,too. It didn't help, cause i didn't like her way. Please help!! (PS I'm from Greece)
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Forcing myself to vomit - uncontrollably
Posted Tuesday July 7 2015, 4:22 pm
20 y/o female: soon to be junior in college
This all started about six months ago when my boyfriend of two and a half years and I broke up. I was devastated to say the least. He had been my rock since middle school, my best friend, and then my boyfriend. I trusted him more than I trusted myself but things had gotten toxic and neither one of us was happy anymore. That's not to say that I didn't miss him like crazy or the support system I had from him and his family being away at college. We had both grown up near the college town but my parents moved across the country when I started my freshman year. I relied on him so much. When things broke off, it was ugly for me. I couldn't eat. When I could eat, I would vomit it all ba...
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