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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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Ashely Why do I have to go to school
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I have to go to school but I really don’t want to go because some people in my class are so chatty and have no manners ,with all of that the noise levels go up and the teachers get annoyed. I find this so annoying because I try my hardest and I know ... View more

I have to go to school but I really don’t want to go because some people in my class are so chatty and have no manners ,with all of that the noise levels go up and the teachers get annoyed. I find this so annoying because I try my hardest and I know every day they will act the same . Today I really hope people behave good but I feel like that won’t happen.

Guesy_839 Social Media
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I thought I'd never use this account again, but here I am. This is mainly an anxiety thing, but it's been bugging me recently because I know it's going to happen someday. I've never done anything stupid on social media, but I'm paranoid it's going to... View more

I thought I'd never use this account again, but here I am. This is mainly an anxiety thing, but it's been bugging me recently because I know it's going to happen someday. I've never done anything stupid on social media, but I'm paranoid it's going to bite me back. I don't know, I've had multiple accounts on sites, and I'm scared someone will find out stuff. What I'm most scared for is that people are going to criticise me in job interviews based on my social media. If you search up my name, a couple photos of stuff I've liked (Pictures of nature and stuff like that). I'm just scared it'll bite me back, and I've been super jumpy over it. What do I do? Sierra (PS: It's more sites like tumblr and that, not like instagram and Snapchat)

somegirlonline Why am I here and Where to get from here
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Hi everyone. I hope your christmas this year will be wonderful or at least easy to cope with. I am writing to this forum because I have tried different methods to distract myself or even heal. I recognise I have an "issue" because a lot have told me ... View more

Hi everyone. I hope your christmas this year will be wonderful or at least easy to cope with. I am writing to this forum because I have tried different methods to distract myself or even heal. I recognise I have an "issue" because a lot have told me I need an actual help. I sought help from a GP and she referred me to a counseling service. The service however is temporarily unavailable due to christmas. Hence, here I am. Not to mention, my partner is away and I think I have a major abandonment issue. I am getting anxious even more due to this. I find myself arguing with him every time we try to keep in touch. I never meant to but it led there. At the moment we have agreed to just focus on ourselves. It's hard to explain to people how intense my anxiety gets. My partner told me I should do "this and that"to distract myself. Of course I have tried to. I find it frustrating when he just could not understand how bad it gets. At one point he gave me a call just to tell me how stupid it was for spamming him. I think we need to work on our communication. That is not the point tho. The title is "why am i here and where to get from here". I have answered my purpose. Where to get from here? I am just coping until New Year's Eve so i could reach the counseling service again. Now for anyone who has knowledge of depression, tell me, how do you keep going? People mistake depression for being a nutcase etc. Maybe I am a nutcase but I had not been properly diagnosed. My GP told me I have biological depression but I haven't got the chance to further investigate. My question is, how do we assimilate in the society so we can live among people? I love my partner, I want to be with him, but it's hard to make him understand why I am this way. I fear losing him but if I cannot make him understand, I feel like I should be alone again. Don't get me wrong, he is a wonderful person. It's just that communicating is difficult when he's abroad and I just need some advice. How do I embrace my anxiety? Or make it tolerable? I don't like to be like this. The tremor. The constant unnecessary worries. Thanks in advance. Merry Xmas.

Mask_is_on Is my health at risk?
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I’ve stayed up for the past week until I have passed out at times past 2am, I’m 15 btw. Well it’s not that bad I have stayed up passed 11pm this whole year. This is purposeful but knowing its not good for myself. Guess it has just triggered to be wor... View more

I’ve stayed up for the past week until I have passed out at times past 2am, I’m 15 btw. Well it’s not that bad I have stayed up passed 11pm this whole year. This is purposeful but knowing its not good for myself. Guess it has just triggered to be worse recently because I am a very lonely person and Nobody ever talks nor texts me. My daily rutine for the past 2 weeks has been stay up late, pass out, wake up, do chores, watch youtube, eat dinner and repeat. I have not had a proper breakfast for a long time, maybe on occasion. And as well rarely I will only have a drink and I will only have 2 sips of that and call it breakfast. I also rarely have breakfast. All I eat is dinner and sometimes at 1-4am I get up and have a snack. With this conbined with eating unhealthy I still manage about average weight in my opinion. 52kilo about.

Unsure1991 My boyfriend is so unsure, I don’t know what to do.
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Hi all, so recently my boyfriend and I have been going through a lot of issues. He is in the navy and has been away for a period of time. I noticed something was up when he wasn’t even excited to be home. we talked and he said he was having doubts an... View more

Hi all, so recently my boyfriend and I have been going through a lot of issues. He is in the navy and has been away for a period of time. I noticed something was up when he wasn’t even excited to be home. we talked and he said he was having doubts and that he doesn’t know what he is feeling right now and whether he should be with me right now. This back and forth conversation last three days with me staying at my parents for most of it. He begged me to come home and said it wasn’t going to make the decision easier if I wasn’t home. We finally got to a point where he said he still wants to be with me but he just has these doubts about long distance. However, he was still really cold to me and wouldn’t touch me or show affection. I decided I had enough and told him that I’m done trying to mend the relationship after the hurtful things he’s said. Anyways back to the point, that was the back story.... last night he told me -he doesn’t feel himself -he doesn’t feel happy anymore -he doesn’t enjoy things he used to enjoy. -he’s drinking a lot since he got back I’ve mentioned to him that it sounds like he might be going through a depressive state. I said he should talk to someone maybe a GP or someone in the navy that counsels them. He said to me he doesn’t know how. I told him I would go with him to the doctor. And he said he wouldn’t know what to do. I don’t know whether to stay and help him through this... I asked him if he wants me to help him through this and he said he doesn’t know. He just said he wants to stop talking about it. How do you help someone that doesn’t want to be helped? Should I still be with him while he’s going through this? Will breaking up with him make it worse?

Meerkat-man Paranoid. Help!
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I have been feeling really paranoid lately, like someone is watching me all the time and someone is going to hurt me even though I know that no one is watching me. I don’t know what to do and I’m way to shy to tell anybody about it. Please help me.

I have been feeling really paranoid lately, like someone is watching me all the time and someone is going to hurt me even though I know that no one is watching me. I don’t know what to do and I’m way to shy to tell anybody about it. Please help me.

JulieCh New here. Survived depression and happy to share my experiences.
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Hi I'm a loving mum to 4 great teens/young adults. I have struggled a lot in recent two years and learnt some great tools to manage this issue. Happy to help where I can J

Hi I'm a loving mum to 4 great teens/young adults. I have struggled a lot in recent two years and learnt some great tools to manage this issue. Happy to help where I can J

cfalz Why can’t I take responsibility for my actions? Need help
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Hi. i’m making this post because I don’t know what else to do. I don’t know why, but I can’t take responsibility for my actions. I’m just really frustrated with myself. My family is so mad at me because I just can’t apologise when I do things wrong. ... View more

Hi. i’m making this post because I don’t know what else to do. I don’t know why, but I can’t take responsibility for my actions. I’m just really frustrated with myself. My family is so mad at me because I just can’t apologise when I do things wrong. I hate it because it ruins everything and I wish I could just flip a switch and change it but I just can’t and it makes me so angry. I’m just sick of being so toxic. I’m ruining everything because of it. My mum’s always angry and that makes my dad angry and then my sister gets angry and it’s all because I can’t take responsibility for my faults. And it’s not that I think I have no faults. I KNOW I have faults. I dwell on the fact that I have faults. Like, I’m not not apologising because I think I’m always right. I never think I’m right. I know I’m wrong but I just can’t apologise. It’s just that I’m always so snappy and that makes my family mad and then I just never apologise and it just makes such a toxic environment. I’m constantly on edge and even the littlest things can set me off and make me so angry and I just snap and then I don’t apologise and even as I type it I know it makes me sound terrible and I really feel it. It just always feels like there’s this pressure in my chest and I’m going to explode if I don’t let it out and that’s when I snap at people and I don’t mean to and I don’t want to but it just happens and I know I should apologise. Like, I know when I should apologise because I recognise the difference between right and wrong and all that but I just can’t apologise even though I know I’m wrong. My family thinks I don’t apologise because I think I’m perfect and I’m always right, but that’s so wrong. I know I’m not perfect, like I really know. I think about my faults and imperfections all the time. I don’t know why I don’t apologise and I don’t why I’m always so irritable. It’s so frustrating. I just want this to stop. I want to stop feeling like this and putting my family through hell. Please can anybody help? Sorry for the long post.

Rose01 Why?
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Okay so this is my first time doing this but I really need help Why do I feel like such a disappointment to my family? Just now my mum yelled at me because we were supposed to go to this memorial thing for a person we know but I freaked out because I... View more

Okay so this is my first time doing this but I really need help Why do I feel like such a disappointment to my family? Just now my mum yelled at me because we were supposed to go to this memorial thing for a person we know but I freaked out because I’m not good with memorials, funerals, death and all that and it doesn’t help that when I last saw that person I said see ya! Who the heck says see ya to a dying person anyway my mum yelled at me because she thought it was about the fact that I was having trouble with my makeup because I needed my sisters help because I have a bit of acne and I didn’t know how to put the makeup on anyway she yelled at me and then said that she’s going and when people ask where I am she will say I’m “sick” instead of telling me that I didn’t come because I couldn’t put on makeup anyway I started crying anyway I have no idea where this is going but I feel like a big disappointment because it’s not just that it’s the fact that I’m 17 I’ve finished school I don’t have a job I’m at home all the time I don’t have a social life I have one friend andddd also people keep saying I’m beautiful but only after I lost a ton of weight??? And I just don’t know because my sister is perfect because she has a job she has a social life and she has heaps of friends and what do I have ?? Nothing and with the makeup thing she told me that I should know how to put on makeup because I’m almost an adult not a child and I just feel like everything is my fault

Birdy3 Witchcraft, Neopaganism, and daily practice
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Hey everyone, my name is Aidan and I’m a Witch. I’ve been practicing witchcraft for 7 years, and during that time I’ve held on to the spark of curiosity and creativity. I was diagnosed with depression at the age of 16, and Generalised Anxiety Disorde... View more

Hey everyone, my name is Aidan and I’m a Witch. I’ve been practicing witchcraft for 7 years, and during that time I’ve held on to the spark of curiosity and creativity. I was diagnosed with depression at the age of 16, and Generalised Anxiety Disorder at 19. My spirituality has helped quite a bit in motivation to get better. Like most who suffer from mental illnesses, I go through a roller coaster of good and bad times within. My anxiety causes daily panic attacks randomly which brings about a range of symptoms including nausea, dizziness, lightheadedness, lack of sleep, difficulty breathing and more depending on how long it takes for me to break the cycle. Back on the subject, The Craft isn’t anything evil, nor is it what Hollywood reveals. My personal practice involves meditation, a lot of nature, magical and medical herbalism, and more spiritual practices like daily devotions, spells, rituals, communication with nature spirits and ancestors, and learning from the land. Seems chill right? Well to me it’s kept me going over the years, and it has motivated me to work towards goals. I was a singer in my teen years, and I will get back into creating music and performing but for now I’m accepting the world around and allowing myself time to gain a better headspace. I’ll give a single exercise: Spent 5 minutes in nature, whether in your backyard or in a park under trees, or anywhere nature thrives. Breathe and be present. Notice the local wildlife and plant life in your area, and with regular practice you begin to see changes around the place. Maybe you want to find out more about the animals or plants you saw, and maybe your curiosity will lead you towards studying plants and animals or even just witnessing more of life. Are there any other Witches, wiccans and Neopaganism practitioner’s here that would like to share their story?

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