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I'm lonely
I'm an 18-year-old female and I'm really lonely. I have friends but I don't feel like they really care about me or would mind if I wasn't around. I've tried talking to them about how I feel and they don't listen. My parents are the same. I don't like my personality or how I look but I can't seem to change it. I try to be social but I just end up feeling miserable. I was diagnosed with depression and had some councilling but it just made me feel worse and when I went back to my doctor, she just sent me away with a reccomendation for more. I feel sad and isolated all the time and I don't know what to do.
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The thing is, there are so many medications for depression. Finding the right one and the right dosage can take a while sometimes. Don't give up trying to find the one that works for you. Remember that its the depression that's making you feel miserable.
If you feel your doctor isn't doing you any good, you can always change doctors. However, keep this in mind.
Your doctor will start you on the lowest dosage. If that doesn't work he/she will continue to increase the dosage until you reach the safe max.Then they will switch drugs and the process starts all over again. It continues until the correct dosage/med for you is found.
Its really to bad it has to take so long sometimes. You should also remember that it takes time for each dosage change to kick in and start working. I'm not sure if a couple of weeks is long enough or if its 30 days. It may depend on the med. That is something to discuss with your doctor.
I'm sure your friends would care if you weren't around. Remember depressed people don't see things exactly as they are at times. You just feel sad all over and can feel you are on the outside looking in. Thats just the depression.
It can be fixed. You have to keep trying & never give up. Things WILL get better.
Feel free to email me any time you want to talk.
Hang in there and let me know if I can help in any way. :)
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You know what? This is sad. I'm going through tge same things and I'm struggling myself. I don't know you but I know everyone IS beautiful on their way amd no one you've met yet has shown you that. The reason why is you don't see it yourself. Let's be friends. I'd like to talk to you more. What do you do for stress relief?
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Go back to therapy. You didn't give it enough time. Its not an overnight fix. Of course it made you feel worse. You're digging up feelings and issues you've never had to explain out loud before. There's like a mourning period that you have to go through before you start to heal. I was in therapy for over a year, and probably the first 4 months were the worst. I felt crappy every time I left that office and I found myself thinking about things I hadn't thought about in years. But I stuck it out, and was eventually able to move out of that stage and into a stage of healing, and eventually happiness. You can have that too. You just gave up too soon. But you're worth the time it takes to get better. Don't give up. Don't take the easy way out. Do the hard work. You'll never regret it, I promise.
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You can't think negatively because if you do you'll make the situation worst & you'll make yourself feel worst also try to think positively even though it won't be easy everyone has things they don't like about themselves or they'd like to change it's normal to feel that way but you can't let it get the best of you your in control of your life and only you if you don't like something change whatever you aren't satisfied with until you are if your friends act like that then they don't deserve to be your friends you deserve better one's who will treat you better tell your parents you'd like it if they took the time out to hear what you've got to say and listen as far as feeling isolated you could get your license that way you'll have more freedom to do what you want try & be confident and believe in yourself don't let the fact that you got diagnosed with depression take over your life(:
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