Hi everyone, I'm new here but I just thought I'd give this a go. I'm not sure where to start exactly- I've had severe anxiety, depression and OCD for the past 5 or so years of my life but it has gotten really bad in the past couple of years. I've been getting more intrusive thoughts and recently had a few weeks off because of suicidal issues. I don't really know what I'm hoping to get out of this post, I just can't seem to deal with everyday life. Even the smallest things like getting on a train or walking around the city by myself trigger my anxiety, and on top of that I just have a constant backlog of depressive and existential thoughts that I can never pull myself out of. I just don't really know what to do anymore; I feel so stuck in my life, like everything I have tried already hasn't worked and nothing is changing- my parents don't want me to go on medication (I'm 17) so they've given me a lot of natural things to try and I've seen a psychologist but that hasn't been effective. I don't always know how to articulate what I'm feeling but I'm just in a constant state of stress and pain, sometimes physical. When it's really bad my chest tightens and really hurts and I can't breathe. I do talk to friends about it, but the problem is that the ones I'm closest to are dealing with the same issues and we can't really help each other. Regardless of this, it's just always the same cycle- I have a panic attack or a breakdown, I talk to my parents and friends, nothing changes then everyone moves on. I was just wondering if anyone has any suggestions of what I should do, or if anyone has experienced the same thing. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
