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Hey there! Welcome to the Young People section of the Beyond Blue Forums. The purpose of this section is to provide members aged 25 and under a space to discuss life issues, tricky situations and the difficult emotions and feelings that come with tho... View more

Hey there! Welcome to the Young People section of the Beyond Blue Forums. The purpose of this section is to provide members aged 25 and under a space to discuss life issues, tricky situations and the difficult emotions and feelings that come with those. If you are aged over 25, please be mindful that this is a space for younger people to connect and provide support for each other. These forums are moderated, so your posts may not appear straight away. Information on moderation on the Forums can be found here. Being familiar with our Community Guidelines can help ensure that your posts appear online as quickly as possible. If we have concerns about your wellbeing, one of our friendly moderators will check in with you privately to make sure you get the support you need. If you need more immediate support, we recommend reaching out to the following: Beyond Blue Support Service – any time, chat online to a counsellor or call 1300 22 4636 Headspace – between 9am and 1am (AEST), chat online to a mental health clinician or call 1800 650 890 Kids Helpline – any time, chat online to a counsellor or call 1800 55 1800 Thank you for being here. We’re glad you’ve found us here and hope this can be a supportive space for you Beyond Blue

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lclaire01 In a rut
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Hi, I was diagnosed with major depression with suicidal tendencies and anxiety when I was 14 years old (now 22). I've been on and off medication over the last 8 years. The last time I was on medication was a year ago. I have been studying at universi... View more

Hi, I was diagnosed with major depression with suicidal tendencies and anxiety when I was 14 years old (now 22). I've been on and off medication over the last 8 years. The last time I was on medication was a year ago. I have been studying at university interstate for the past 5 years, I grew to love the town and I made the best friends I've ever had. I recently graduated university and we all went our separate ways with most of my friends starting work soon. I've moved home as I haven't found work yet. Since moving home I've just felt hopeless, I have so much grief and worry, dreading starting a new life somewhere else and loosing the friendships I made. I'm not ready to say goodbye to the old life I had because it feels like the last time I was truly happy. Since being home I'm constantly tired, my self esteem has plummeted, I feel worthless, disgusting and not good enough. I have this overbearing weight of sadness on me. I am constantly putting myself down telling myself I'm not good enough to get a job and picking apart my body, questioning why I'm not good looking or skinny enough for any guy to be interested in me. I have one genuine friend left in my hometown, but I'm feeling this crushing loneliness, I feel like I have no one. Part of my anxiety is social anxiety and the thought of moving to a new town and making new friends is so stressful because I feel like I'm not good enough or interesting enough for people to want to hang out with me. I'm just constantly depressed and I don't know how to get out of it, I just want to feel like I did before I moved back home but it feels like there isn't and end in sight.

LittleFox30 Feeling Depressed
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Hi all, I have been feeling very down lately. In the past 10 years, it has been an on and off feeling since my mum passed away of cancer, but recently it has been more of a constant feeling of depression. I have been diagnosed with depression in the ... View more

Hi all, I have been feeling very down lately. In the past 10 years, it has been an on and off feeling since my mum passed away of cancer, but recently it has been more of a constant feeling of depression. I have been diagnosed with depression in the past, but refused to believe it as the feelings of depression only came once a week or so. Lately however, I have been trying to improve myself and be more outgoing, as I am a very quiet person and my boyfriend is very talkative with everyone he meets. However, I have found over the past week that I am losing an interest in talking, I just want to be on my own and not talk to anyone. I just don't have any energy. I am not sure what has happened to change my attitude about this, but I just feel sluggish and want to relax on uni holidays, however have 1000 things to do everyday so am unable to do that. I would like to find a new psychologist as I have been in and out of psychologists and as soon as I talk to someone, I start to feel healthier after a few sessions and then stop going. I feel that I may have some issues regarding my mums death that I have not addressed that are affecting my moods and attitudes to this day. Any advice you have for me would be good. Even writing this I feel like this probably isn't a big deal and that I should just stop feeling sorry for myself, but I really do just want to become a better person and happy again.

Sky_O OCD Sucks
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Basically, I've been having a lot of disrespectful thoughts about my religion lately, and it's hard to tell what's OCD and what's not. I'm a spiritual person and my beliefs mean a lot to me - so I'm really worried that, even if these thoughts are OCD... View more

Basically, I've been having a lot of disrespectful thoughts about my religion lately, and it's hard to tell what's OCD and what's not. I'm a spiritual person and my beliefs mean a lot to me - so I'm really worried that, even if these thoughts are OCD, they'll slowly become real the more they're repeated in my head. I've been told to just 'let them go' but sometimes, it's difficult

Sky_O Outsider
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Hi, I'm new here and this is my first post. I'm in Year 7 and I have anxiety/OCD. I guess my main problem in life right now is the fact that I feel like I don't belong in school and that I have very few friends. Of course, amongst the friends that I ... View more

Hi, I'm new here and this is my first post. I'm in Year 7 and I have anxiety/OCD. I guess my main problem in life right now is the fact that I feel like I don't belong in school and that I have very few friends. Of course, amongst the friends that I do have, they're all very supportive and kind. But honestly, life in primary school was so much easier/more exciting. I was School Captain in Grade 6, and the transition between last year and 2018 has been a difficult one. In Term 1, for example, I came in to the grade trying my hardest to be voted Class Captain. I was constantly trying to maintain an attitude that I knew everybody would appreciate, as well as helping others as much as I could. So I was devastated when I wasn't voted as a candidate. This kind of situation sounds so petty when I put it into words. But it hurt me a lot, and it's sucked up a lot of my motivation for 2019. I've also been bullied twice this year - something that's never, ever occurred in all the years of my life. I'm seriously doubting the advantages of this school. I want a fresh start, but I'm worried that everything's just going to repeat itself again next year (2019). I feel like, no matter how hard I try, all my efforts to be appreciated/noticed/liked are totally wasted. Not that I want to be 'popular' - I just want to be recognized as somebody more than an outsider. The school is always advertising positive qualities and funds and charities and whatnot - something that my old school never really did - and yet I feel like I fitted in more in primary school than now. I'm honestly not sure what to do. I'd never even wanted to come to this particular school in the first place. I know that I should be grateful that I have an education - the academic standards of this school are actually very high. I feel that my grades have improved quite a lot since last year. But my mental state has not.

pluro is there something wrong with me??
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soooo...idk if this is normal but it's kinda getting annoying at this point. my brain just feels like it's all over the place, all the time, 24/7. like one minute i'll be working on something and the next minute i'll think about something and my mind... View more

soooo...idk if this is normal but it's kinda getting annoying at this point. my brain just feels like it's all over the place, all the time, 24/7. like one minute i'll be working on something and the next minute i'll think about something and my mind will spiral into a billion different directions all at once. and i also often overthink lots of things. for example id say my friends would consider me the 'funny' one of the group. but whenever im funny it always comes naturally but lately ive started worrying about thinking too much about thinking when im talking to them and stop becoming funny because im trying too hard to be funny. thinking back on it ive always thought like this ever since i was little. i remember when i was maybe three or four and i had trouble falling asleep because i would be thinking about thinking about thinking and so on for hours. i also remember as a child i would do this weird thing where if i hurt my left arm, i would need to hurt my right arm with the exact same amount of pressure before i could go on with my day. it would be the same with if i touched something cold or hot, etc. i still have it now except it's different and now i need to feel lighter on my right side and heavier on my left. like i can only touch cold things with my right hand (or both), and i can touch hot things with my left hand. (i can also only touch the space bar with my right hand). and if i hurt my left hand then i dont do anything but if i hurt my right hand then i need to hurt my left hand with twice the amount of force. i used to think it was ocd but when i looked it up people seemed to be more bothered by it than i was? idk im not that bothered by it and i dont think about it that much but for some reason i think it might be related to it in some way. sorry for such an all over the place post, but im really not in the mood for punctuating things correctly. anyway i also have trouble with a lot of things school or learning related. like i get really good grades, but i can never complete assignments on time, always end up doing it 4 hours before it's due, cant study, beg the teachers for extensions, cant sleep properly, always break my belongings (laptop, phone, etc.) i feel so guilty it's killing me, i feel so sorry that i cause my parents so much trouble. im turning 14 yrs old in a few days, are these feelings normal as im going into my teenage years? will i get used to them? i have more to say but my word count's running out so....

FullCreamMilk Empty
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Lately I've been feeling really empty and lost. I'm going into year 11 next year, it's not a massive deal but I am putting pressure on myself to do well however I don't think I'm feeling empty because of the stress I'm putting upon myself. I'm not su... View more

Lately I've been feeling really empty and lost. I'm going into year 11 next year, it's not a massive deal but I am putting pressure on myself to do well however I don't think I'm feeling empty because of the stress I'm putting upon myself. I'm not sure how to describe it but it feels like I'm lacking something and that something isn't right, I've also been really unmotivated and unproductive lately. I feel like when I talk with friends these feelings momentarily pause but as soon as I stop they come back. I can't really talk to my friends 24/7 either because 1. it becomes really tiring for myself like social interactions really drain me and sometimes it feels as though I'm just burderning them? I'm honestly just a mess right now and I'm not sure why.

Ashely Do I have Anxiety?
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I feel sick ,worried that something bad is going to happen and whenever I feel that something bad does happen. I wish I didn’t feel like this is there anything that can help me ?.

I feel sick ,worried that something bad is going to happen and whenever I feel that something bad does happen. I wish I didn’t feel like this is there anything that can help me ?.

aggy2801 i feel stuck
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Hi everyone, Lately i've been in the worst mindset and have been feeling the worst i have in my short life. I'm only 14 years old and i have been dealing with serious emotions and thoughts. School is something that i used to love but now dread, i als... View more

Hi everyone, Lately i've been in the worst mindset and have been feeling the worst i have in my short life. I'm only 14 years old and i have been dealing with serious emotions and thoughts. School is something that i used to love but now dread, i also used to love hanging out with my friends, but have stopped talking with them and looking back they weren't really good friends to me. I should be happy, as i still have a few good friends, and a functional and caring family but i'm barely happy. I feel lonely as i spend free time watching tv or reading, or sometimes i just sit on my bed and think. I have overwhelming attacks of sadness and i don't know what to do. I feel stuck. I don't think i'm close enough to talk to any of my friends and i feel that if i tell my family i'd be letting them down. Signing up to this was really hard for me but, i feel better just being able to rant. i feel like there is something wrong with me and i hate myself for who i am. I don't know what to do. I'm hoping that someone here will have some advice for me.

InfinityDistribution Nearly all my friends are online and I sometimes feel lonely irl
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Not my first time on here, posted here over a year ago or so. I finished my second year of uni this year. Previously I said I was having trouble making any friends at uni. I'm also a pretty big computer gamer so about a year ago I joined this small o... View more

Not my first time on here, posted here over a year ago or so. I finished my second year of uni this year. Previously I said I was having trouble making any friends at uni. I'm also a pretty big computer gamer so about a year ago I joined this small online game community and next thing I know, bam! I now have like four or five really close online friends who I really like playing games with and, with a couple of them, they really seem to care about me but I can't really talk to them about my glaring problem. I have a lot of friends online but I still feel pretty alone in real life. I still have to go to uni and there I feel lonely. I remember a couple times in lectures I almost felt like I was going to cry or barf or something. It got a bit better cause in my second semester this year I managed to make some friends at uni (yayy) but I'm a guy and they are all girls. I'm pretty close friends with one of them now and we've talked quite a lot about each other to each other but she's really really into uni work and not much else. I asked her if she wanted to catch up over the holidays (as friends. I have no romantic interests in her and she's told me she probably never wants to get into a relationship with anyone ever) but she said her parents dont let her meet up with boys during the holidays. Then with the other friends... well I dont really feel like I'm as close friends with any of them enough. During these holidays Ive still been hanging out with my online friends a lot, sometimes spending six hours on the computer a day with them. It's literally the only way I can hang out with anyone. I'm almost getting sick of the computer! But I can't cause theyre my friends and I have other hobby projects that all require the computer too and my uni work needs the computer so... yeah. And I look at my younger brother who's always going out with his friends or whenever I go say christmas shopping I see all these other people hanging out with their friends or even at uni... the jealousy is real. It was really bad when two of my other online friends discovered they lived only ten minutes away from each other irl and I got jealous of them cuz they started hanging out a lot in real life and in games and leaving me out. Not on purpose, and I told them how I felt and we sorted it out but still things like that happen. Sorry for the wall of text. I dont know what to do or say. Or who to tell without annoying anyone. So much to get down. Welp, character limit reached!

Funnybox67 Family isn't always blood
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I have created this thread for all the foster kids out there and all of those who are treated badly by their families. I am/was a foster kid in the Australian System. I came to be there because I was physically, psychologically and emotionally abused... View more

I have created this thread for all the foster kids out there and all of those who are treated badly by their families. I am/was a foster kid in the Australian System. I came to be there because I was physically, psychologically and emotionally abused by my family. My step-dad would lock me in my room for weeks/months on end and if i made the tiniest peep or did anything he deemed wrong. My mum did nothing to help me and my three siblings and through court, even after she told me to stop lying and that she was disappointed in me. before that my siblings and I were physically abused by her previous boyfriend and ex-boyfriends brother sexually abused me and my sister (my mum wasn't aware until years later). I went through the system bouncing from home to home facing abuse almost everywhere I went. My siblings and I were split up and are no longer close. I have gone through years of counselling to bring me to the point I am at now. I forgave my mum and stepdad and they had a child together. even with all that I am now facing homelessness. I'm living at my boyfriends mothers until I can get my own place. I'm now estranged from my parents because the more i better my life the more they seem to pull away and drag me down. My next closest sibling and I have never got along but my parents cant seem to be able to have a healthy relationship with the both of us they always need to be fighting with one of us. Today I have my dog in a kennel being paid for by CPFS because i need him for safety purposes (my bio dad is a heavy drug addict who has tried to harm my family many times), I'm homeless and I have almost nobody I am on speaking terms with that I am related to (my Nanna - bio dads mum - is always there if i need to talk but she lives on the other side of the country). however i have found family in those I'm not related to. My boyfriend and his family. My friendship group and my case manager are the family I have. So if my story is similar to yours don't be afraid to step away from your family if their abusive and you DON'T HAVE TO FORGIVE THEM!!! Just because you are related by blood doesn't mean they can hurt or control you in unhealthy ways. Remember family isn't blood its the people in your life who want you in there's. they are the ones who would do anything to see you smile. You are not alone and there are thousands of us who understand. If you need help then please seek it, you don't need to live with it no matter what.

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