Depression Please Please Help?
Question by Beth: depression please please help?
Okay well first off, I have depression. I’m not one of those kids who go around saying “oh i have depression” but haven’t been clinically diagnosed. I have been. I saw a therapist but then i stopped because my parents thought it wasn’t helping me. I’ve been taking medication but it hasn’t been helping so i’m going back to a therapy. The weird thing is, when i’m with my friends, i’m happy. I feel fine. But when i get home, when i talk to my parents, when i’m with my family, i feel aweful. I feel disgusted. I feel so aweful. I don’t understand. Why is this? Why do I feel fine around my friends but really sad around my parents and siblings. I have been having many thoughts about suicide. I used to self harm, and when my dad found out he started screaming at me. I spend a lot of time alone in my room and my dad screams at me for not having a life. They stress me out so much. I have also been having many thoughts and highly considering smoking weed. I have smoked nutmeg before (stupid i know) but never drugs. My parents have always stressed never to do drugs, and i have always never even considered it until now. I just want to feel happy, and that’s what my friends said being high is like. I just want to feel relaxed. The minute i start talking to my parents or set foot in my house i just feel a heavy tension. My parents aren’t divorced or anything, they don’t fight but i just feel so aweful. I have been a true believer in God my whole life, but i don’t think i believe anymore. My parents are huge christians, I feel myself becoming an atheist. Last year i was a straight A student and now i’m failing classes. I just want to feel happy. Even just for a little. I don’t care about anything anymore. I’m just so done. I need help. Please someone give me advice.
Best answer:
Answer by Naguru
Good advice is hard to give; and it is even harder to grasp such intricate hints.
There is a proverb. You can take a horse to the river but you can not make him drink. In such critical situation, one can only pray honestly and sincerely with ardent devotion.
In your case, you can easily solve your problems by strictly sharing your genuine feelings with your beloved parents.
Answer by Foreigner
I’ve been kind of in the same situation, i don’t know about your family but if they are not reasonable just dont listen to them, about the weed, I personally do smoke it, and i also have a clinical depression, it does help in the moment when you are down but some researches show that it may be harmful, that would be your choice, though weed is not really addictive so if you want you can always try. just be careful of knowing what you do. For me the best help for depression is talking to someone that you really love, such a really good friend or a girlfriend, but don’t talk about your sadness, just some small talk, laughing a bit will be good. if there is tension in your house just try to get out more often, takes walks! exercise is really good to deal with depression, so do as much sport as you can, try to do it instead of being a home, you can fight it yourself in this way pretty well, about the suicidal tendencies… well i do have them too… but its pretty difficult to do something like that when you don’t believe in anything, I’m personally atheist, and just not living is pretty damn awful to imagine, its just nothingness, you would just not exist at all, it really terrifies me and that prevents me form doing stupid stuff. well i hope i helped you :) remember, exercise, be active, rely on your good friends, and think positive good luck :D