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How to stop feeling weird and off?
I'm an 18 year old girl and I've been dealing with depression for about about a year now and I'm trying to get better. But sometimes (like now for instance) where I just have this consuming feeling of being off. It's like I'm not quite myself and I feel strange and weird. Sometimes I want to hide from everyone or sometimes I just start crying from feeling this way. I hate it more then any feeling I get when depressed. I feel like I'm not me and like I'm off. Does anyone else get this feeling? I might be crazy but does anyone know how to stop it or make it better because I can't stand being like this and it usually continues until I go to bed and when I wake up I'm fine. But I can't just go to sleep in the middle of the day. Any advice?
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Many people go through stages like this. My advice to you, is to go to a doctor, and get a prescription. Because when you're depressed, you need those chemicals in you to help take those feelings away. I'd say get a hobby, but I would take the pills first, because it's hard to have a hobby when you're depressed. I hope that helps. Call asap
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The teenage depression referred to can be due to many different things by one not well known one is due to our systems having picked up estrogen just through contact with things in our environment, then when puberty hits and females get their naturally produced estrogen on top of that, they have an overload and one of the symptoms of this overload is depression.
So no matter what the reason is, its time to go see a doctor.
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Just so you know I am not a doctor, none of us on this site are.
First: You are 18 which makes you an adult under the law. This also means that under the law even though you may still be covered under your parents health insurance they no longer have any say in any medical treatment you may need or seek. They can not speak to a doctor and learn anything about any medical visit you may have or see your medical records unless you have given the(se) doctors written permission. This is all written under a Federal Law Called HIPPA. Each doctor you visit will have you complete what is called a HIPPA disclosure form for their Office detailing your rights and theirs.
That being said if you are medically depressed as opposed to common everyday type of depression. Then you need professional help to get well. We all suffer from some type of depression brought on by something happening in our lives to make us temporarily depressed such as the loss of a loved one. Most of us get over it after a while.
Medical depression is much different. In your writing you hit several of the points a doctor might use to diagnose clinical depression. The most common form of medical depression. If you have not been properly diagnosed you need to see your doctor and schedule a complete physical and request to be screened for depression at the same time.
The reason for the complete physical is the doctor is going to want to do one to rule out any organic reason for how you feel that mimics depression. The test for depression is a series of questions the doctor will ask you during the physical. From your answers the doctor can make a diagnoses. Based on the diagnoses your PCP may chose to treat you or recommend you see a specialist.
Given your age it is quite possible you are suffering what doctors call teenage depression. This is a form of clinical depression teenagers suffer brought on by the abnormal amount of stress in their lives Generally it is treated with a pill and talk therapy with a psychologist to find out what the stress or stressors are in your life and help you deal with them better.
Therefore my advice is to make an appointment with your family doctor. This is something that now that you are 18 only you can do for yourself.
Your parents cannot make an appointment for you or stop you from seeing a doctor even if you are on their insurance. Remember they no longer have any legal say in your medical well being unless you ask for their advice and then it is only advice. So see your doctor
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