Need help...please

LegacyUser

It's been about 2 years now that I've been depressed. At first I thought it was just a teenage thing (atm I'm 17), but it's going on and on. The funny thing is that I alternate between phases of euphoria and phases of depression, where I contemplate on suicide. I have low self-esteem and motivation. I am in my final year at school and I am already throwing my great plans of college down the drain. I feel like I cannot study and I just stare blankly at homework etc. Looking around I see that things are working out for my friends and that just annoys me. All I feel like now is a man without balls. Please could you give me some advice?

Nevyn

Talk to your parents/ dr about it.

scruff321

Thaedydal wrote: »

Talk to your parents/ dr about it.

second that.

man if your that depressed you need to talk to someone,life is amazing uv got to realise that!your only young,the best years of your life are ahead of you trust me! if you search out the positives in your life and have a positive attitude rather then getting down about whats not right ul be a happier person.

unhappycamper

They speak the truth, when you hit 21 you will see the world in a much better light! Tough times at the mo but they end and then the real fun will begin. Have you a therapist?

LegacyUser

I'm 35 and I've been in the same kind of situation for the last few years. It's a hard situation to get yourself out of but it is possible, I've done it despite thinking that I couldn't and feeling suicidal on and off. Firstly you will 100% want to get better, that might sound obvious but when depressed you actually don't focus on that and don't really care what happens.

Get advice from a doctor and go for counselling. Then change your lifestyle, introduce regular exercise and healthy eating, trust me it works. If you start yourself on the right path you will not believe the natural high you will get at making yourself better. It motivates you to have a better quality of life. Sure you will have a bad day but who doesn't?? a bad day is a bad day and nothing more, look at those days as a test of your recovery and stick two fingers up at it and tell yourself your done with letting depression rule your life. The trick is wanting to get better and sticking to your guns. Send positive messages to your brain constantly and you will not believe the results.

You are already on the right path because you say you know you are throwing your great plans of college away. Well done because you already know what you are going to lose so get your ass in gear and dont let it win.

Lockstep

12345FGH wrote: »

It's been about 2 years now that I've been depressed. At first I thought it was just a teenage thing (atm I'm 17), but it's going on and on. The funny thing is that I alternate between phases of euphoria and phases of depression, where I contemplate on suicide. I have low self-esteem and motivation. I am in my final year at school and I am already throwing my great plans of college down the drain. I feel like I cannot study and I just stare blankly at homework etc. Looking around I see that things are working out for my friends and that just annoys me. All I feel like now is a man without balls. Please could you give me some advice?

I felt similarly during my last year of school (albeit without the suicide)

The study thing was grand for me, I always felt I was doing nothing, would stare blankly at my homework and always wondered how others were able to study for hours on end. I came out fine.

Talk to your parents about it, do you do any sports? They really helped me keep my head on the ground and if nothing else can help you spend a few hours a week where the leaving cert doesn't come into things at all. The exertion will also help you study.

One thing I found extremely helpful was glancing over notes when I was about to sleep, for some reason, my mind absorbed it a lot quicker.

The sports and study won't solve your problems alone, but they will help introduce a sort of routine which can be beneficial.

liah

From euphoria to suicidal depression sounds like bipolar disorder/manic depression.

Go to a doctor and get some help, medication can do something for you, and maybe watch that documentary Stephen Fry did on his manic depression. Quite good.

DeiseChick87

heya hun

ok first things first...im not a doctor or in any way professionally trained to be offering u advise. anything i do say is based on personal experience!
Going from stages of euphoria to depression sounds alot like bi-polar disorder (a type of depression).
talk to ur parents & go to ur g.p. you dont have to feel like this! Meds will help. depression greatly effects ur concentration and motivation.
with proper meds things will get easier.


take care x