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Depression, no friends and no life..

  • 03-01-2012 10:00pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm a 17 year old girl and I used to have a lot of friends but then 2 years ago I started feeling down and I was diagnosed with depression. I stopped going out and left school because it became too hard to cope with and eventually lost all contact with my old friends as I think they became fed up with me. I started being home schooled and I'm doing my leaving cert this year, but now I have no social life or anything. Also I really don't know what to do after my leaving cert, I wanted to go to college and make friends but its just really hard for me to even think about going, I'm scared it will all go wrong and I don't want to go to college and feel like how I did before. I feel like I'm going no where in life and everything is just getting on top of me. I want to have friends, go out and have fun but its just so hard and I just don't know what to do. I feel like I have ruined my life. I'm just looking for some advice?


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  • #2
    girlonfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭girlonfire


    Hey,

    It sounds like you've been going through a pretty rough time. Sorry to hear that. It can be really tough putting yourself back out there once you've been isolated, which can happen when depressed. I understand your fear re going to college, but I think it would be a wonderful opportunity for you to make some new friends and take your life in a new direction.
    You'll meet so many new people and the best thing about going to college is that you have the freedom to be yourself. Do you have a course in mind? How're you coping with the depression now?
    You can most definitely do it OP. I say go for it and wish you the best of luck:)


  • #3
    shimmery
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭shimmery


    You are being so hard on yourself, what you have been through has required such strength of charachter, that you are already more mentally preared for college than all your peers. When you go to college, everyone makes friends with each other in such a natural process that you will wonder what was I worried about :) and if you are worried about meeting new people, dont be, everyone is so open and dying to meet new friends too. when you get to college everyone is the same. Please have faith in yourself and your future, you are doing the best you can and it is more than enough. Your illness makes you a more understanding, emphatic person. You will be a great friend to many people, i know it. Best of luck sweetheart x x x


  • #4
    Wtech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭Wtech


    Hi, i do not want to kill you know because i know u have a hard time but :

    - real friends they never forget about you, they are still there just do not be afraid to go and talk
    - when i had depression i have spoke to my brother sisters even tho they only 15/19 year old. It helps
    - try to find positive points, so far looks like u see negative only. Im sure ur pretty Girl so use it, go meet guys, let them fight for ur friendship with them.
    - school is not everything some people have it some of them don't. ( i have no school and im engineering manager ) as i said try to look at positive points !!!

    Keep smiling, do things u like ...


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