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Ridding Insecurities/Depression.
18/F
For the past few years I've felt insecure about EVERYTHING. From my relationships, to my body, to my personality, etc.
I know that I'm a pretty girl and I know I have a great personality but a voice in my head keeps telling me I could be better.. which is affecting my relationships.
I'm a very sensitive person so I take everything to heart, which I think is my downfall. I just don't know how to stop saying negative things about myself, it's just always on my mind.
I have also cut in the past because I don't like who I am. I've tried to talk to God to help me stop cutting but it's very hard to speak to someone who doesn't directly talk back, if you know what I mean.
Can someone please give me tips on overcoming this and how to gain some confidence?
Also, I've been put on Celexa (an anti-depressant) to help me get out of this rut, but it's not working 100%.
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Hi there all this sounds similar to what i have been through and i had to go back to the doctor to change my anti-depressant when they didn't work but it is a nightmare to go but we did find some that work and i had to turn negitives into positives and then i worked on me self harming by writing my thoughts and feelings down or i found a hobbie just something to keep my mind off it all
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Sometimes God puts others in our lives to help us through things. That's how He "talks" back to us. So find a therapist/doctor you can talk this through with. You need help. Prayer is a start, but you have to take advantage of the options God gives you in response to your prayer. Options like seeking help, confiding in friends, becoming an active part of a loving, accepting church community. Medication is just for the physical aspects of depression. For the spiritual/mental aspects of depression, I'm afraid there is no pill, the only solution is good, old-fashioned hard work, seeking out help when you don't really feel like it is a big part of that hard work. Good luck. You can do this. You really can.
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Yeah, medications are aids, not solutions all by themselves.
Are you in therapy? The single best results for recovering from depression and axienty come from a combination of therapy and medical intervention. If you aren't able to afford therapy on your own, look for groups or services that can help you gain access to it. Advicenators is great for advice, but therapy helps you to actually change.
Now, this isn't the advice of a 'professional' or anything, but it was the trick that got me to stop a lot of my negative thinking and destructive thoughts. Each time one would pop up, I'd force myself to take it further and further until it became plain silly. If I had a thought like "I bet your dog hates you." I'd start to make it as silly as possible "Yes, your dog hates you. He is part of a Russian criminal syndicate bent on dominating your liberal arts university through chewing up your leather pumps and vomiting them up all over the modern English language classics...". When I felt like saying “I can’t do this.” I’d come up with lunatic things that I actually couldn’t do, like “I can’t fly to mars using my own paisley bat wings…”
It sounds nuts, but it really did help me stop the negative self-talk I was always doing. It reminded me how silly the bad things I was thinking about myself were, and it made me smile. Even today I do it when I feel me start to beat myself up for no good reason.
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