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I think I'm depressed how can I speak to my teacher about it
17/f
I think I might be depressed. I'm constantly tired, irritated, feel down, I'm stressed out, i hate my body, I can't concentrate, I'm constantly on the verge of tears at school lately, I don't have an appetite, I feel horrible. I'm headgirl of my school and it's really stressing me out. Schools only been open for two weeks but I've never felt worse. Everything I do is wrong because I'm "head prefect and should be setting an example" even if I'm not doing something bad. I try be nice to everyone, I'm top in my class for regrades, I'm always respectful to teachers and her they point out all my flaws since I became head prefect. It's like they expect me to be perfect. When I was 13 I cut everyday and had a bit of an eating disorder. I hadn't cut for 3 years and this week I've cut twice. Ive been bottling up my feelings for months and now I feel like I'm gonna snap but I just can't let myself cry. I let myself cry earlier and I broke but I stopped myself and I just don't feel like I'm done.Ican't speak to my friends because they won't get it and it won't help and my school friends won't care cause they didn't make it to head girl and I did so they won't care of I fail at it. I have a new teacher who doesn't like the girls in our biology class and he's just really rude, and he's also in charge of the prefects which makes it worse because he picks on me and blames me for what goes wrong even if I have no control over it. He even gossips about us to the chemistry class.
I have a female teacher who is really nice and she studied phycology as well. I've been thinking about just speaking to her because I just feel like I'm about to snap and lose it and I can't do it anymore, it just feels so hard to cope. I don't know how to speak to her though? How do I ask to speak to her, especially without my friends noticing? I don't want to annoy her or make her think I'm looking for attention either. What do I even say when I speak to her? I know I can't say that I cut because she'll have to go tell my parents I guess but if I tell her any of this besides the cutting will she be obligated to tell someone? Please help me know how to do this. I can't tell my parents it's not a option and I can't get myself to a therapist
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Speak to someone, preferably a person you are most comfortable with. If the teacher has no idea how to help you, keep choosing people until someone gets you the help you need. a school nurse or counselor are also good choices. But please tell someone. I had a daughter who had depression in HS, but none of the signs for it showed. She was great at covering it up. I could tell when she was upset with a friend long before she told me after I asked questions about whats going on with the friend. SO it wasnt that I was not involved enough or caring enough to know. It hurt badly to discover it after her first child and post partum depression added to what she already suffered put it totally out of control to where she said she had feelings of wanting to kill herself and the baby even tho she knew that was wrong. So she got on meds after seeing her Dr. I still feel bad as a parent that I wasn't able to help her earlier and she had to suffer, simply because she chose for whatever reason to not tell me or anyone else. There are people who care about you who will not want to discover you have been suffering in silence. Please don't chicken out and tell someone, or the teacher you like. I'd also talk to other students about the male teacher who is rude and gossipy. Find a couple others who will go with you to complain to a counselor or the principle. If you can't stand the teacher because he is not doing well as a teacher, others most likely feel the same. Only one complaining can be easily ignored but if 3 of you or more complain together and highlight what he is doing wrong, then its likely the teacher will be talked to and told to straighten up.
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