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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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ellie456 Anxiety sleeping someone new
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Help!! Over the last year every time I go away for a night with friends or even staying the night at a friends place I can never fall asleep and end up having a panic attack and leaving. I’ve now started to avoid doing it all together. I never use to... View more

Help!! Over the last year every time I go away for a night with friends or even staying the night at a friends place I can never fall asleep and end up having a panic attack and leaving. I’ve now started to avoid doing it all together. I never use to have this problem, only on rare occasions. Does anyone else go through this and if so how do they overcome it?

Aquarius1971 Bad father-daughter relationship//How do I cope with a selfish dad?
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My parents have been divorced for 11 years and just now as I’m older I have realised what a crap father I have. He works away in another state and lives there with his fiancée and her children. He used to come to my state to visit me for 2 weeks ever... View more

My parents have been divorced for 11 years and just now as I’m older I have realised what a crap father I have. He works away in another state and lives there with his fiancée and her children. He used to come to my state to visit me for 2 weeks every 3/4 months. In the last 2/3 years he comes to see me for a week every 6/8 months. I recently found out he’s getting married while on a trip over seas, but he was not the one who told me this. I feel like he always puts himself first, I’m always the one messaging or calling him, he doesn’t contact me first. I’m starting to not want to have anything to with him. I don’t know what to do, How can I fix our relationship?

Rosie_Spencer School Anxiety
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Hey everyone, As you probably guessed from the title I am a high school student (year 10) and i have like really bad anxiety sometimes. Its nothing like I don't have any friends or I don't know how to walk into and room and stuff its more like when i... View more

Hey everyone, As you probably guessed from the title I am a high school student (year 10) and i have like really bad anxiety sometimes. Its nothing like I don't have any friends or I don't know how to walk into and room and stuff its more like when i get in trouble by teachers. For example today i got in trouble for the first time and it was about giving my notes for a test that I got from a girl to another girl and my teacher sent the whole class the email saying she's very disappointed and very angry. I haven't been able to sleep and she's asking for everyone to hand in their notes and I'm doing them now but I can't seem to find the motivation to do it like its so weird. This never happens, I know that i need to get it done rlly badly but i can't. I physically can't and instead of it i could be cleaning my room but I'm just sitting here thinking about it and thinking about it. I have no idea what to do. I also get terrified talking to adults and if i talk to my teacher I would probably break down in tears.

quenham procrastinating causing panic
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first post, just a bit of a vent im in year 11, exams and assignments are coming up and i cant stop procrastinating and putting things off to the night before/morning that something is due and stressing myself to the core (im putting off my modern hi... View more

first post, just a bit of a vent im in year 11, exams and assignments are coming up and i cant stop procrastinating and putting things off to the night before/morning that something is due and stressing myself to the core (im putting off my modern history and economics to write this now). my eating and sleeping cycles are completely whack and i feel like the husk of my normal self because i cant focus on anything, but at the same time i lack all motivation to try and improve myself or my habits. i feel trapped in this downward spiral of ignoring my problems and i can tell theyre coming to bite me soon, i just couldnt care less. im so scared to seek professional help because that means i have to admit somethings wrong and i would have to miss class to book appointments with professionals because of outer-school commitments, which stresses me more than just doing nothing. the long story short, im sick of putting myself through very clearly avoidable stress, but i dont know how to stop myself from doing it. im so tired of everything, literally and figuratively, and i feel like im rushing toward my brink pretty damn fast. if nothing else, thank you for a place like this where people can share their ideas and feelings. -quentin

cc182 Loneliness
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I feel like I'm in a constant paradox of feeling alone and depressed, and being too anxious to go out/ask my friends to do something. Even when I'm out with them, there's still that small thought in the back of my mind, that they don't like me, or I'... View more

I feel like I'm in a constant paradox of feeling alone and depressed, and being too anxious to go out/ask my friends to do something. Even when I'm out with them, there's still that small thought in the back of my mind, that they don't like me, or I'm annoying and a waste. How do I deal with this? Talking online with people isn't too great either, I feel largely ignored a majority of the time, and that people just don't care about what I have to say.

Liza_O12 I want to have a break from having contact with my dad
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Hey everyone, For around 3-4 years, I have had to put up with my Dad not being able to get over him and my mums divorce. He's been an alcoholic since long before they split and it has caused our relationship to be very on and off. I've been through s... View more

Hey everyone, For around 3-4 years, I have had to put up with my Dad not being able to get over him and my mums divorce. He's been an alcoholic since long before they split and it has caused our relationship to be very on and off. I've been through so many stages of living with him half the time but then he'll start drinking again so I tell him that I'll come back when he sorts things out. Then we start to get back on a good path but he starts drinking again. For the past 3 years, I've always kept good contact with him, even when I wasn't living with him. However, recently he did something again and it feels like it was the last straw. I don't want to talk to him, and I haven't for the past 3 weeks but Father's Day is coming up and he wants my sister and I to go and do something with him however I really don't want to and it makes me anxious just thinking about it. So I need some advice... Is it rude to not go and do something with my dad on Father's Day or is it ok to be kind of selfish in this situation? I have forgiven my dad and tried to help him with his problems countless times but he never does anything to help himself and get back on the right track. I feel like I'm the adult in our relationship and I'm only 15 years old. I'm sick of him always making me feel awful but I feel guilty for not going because he pays for things like my phone and my braces. Sorry if this doesn't make any sense but if you can understand what I'm saying, any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Liza

Guest_1478 Choice: give in to fear or accept the request?
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Hi, I am in year 11 at school and our Senior Head of Learning asked if I would consider speaking at a parent night for the year 10 parents about year 11 life. The teacher would ask a group of us (about 5 or 6 from my class) some questions on stage th... View more

Hi, I am in year 11 at school and our Senior Head of Learning asked if I would consider speaking at a parent night for the year 10 parents about year 11 life. The teacher would ask a group of us (about 5 or 6 from my class) some questions on stage that we would answer. There would be no more than 30 parents there, by my estimate from past years. However, I have terrible social anxiety and stage fright is one of my greatest problems. I am honoured to have been considered and I would love to help out the teacher by doing it but I don't know if I can. I feel so awful after doing anything in front of people and I don't know if I can make the decision to voluntarily feel that way. Does anyone have any advice or an opinion on what I should do?

Puppiesxoxo In desperate need of advice!
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Hi, I finished high school last year (this may be relevant to later information) and I’m just making this post as I am in desperate need of advice on what to do/who to talk to! So basically for a few months now I have been crying a lot - around 2-3 t... View more

Hi, I finished high school last year (this may be relevant to later information) and I’m just making this post as I am in desperate need of advice on what to do/who to talk to! So basically for a few months now I have been crying a lot - around 2-3 times a day , every day (minus a few days here and there) . At first I thought it may just be stress crying from not knowing what I want to study at uni but now I just cry over absolutely everything and sometimes I don’t really know why. If someone is angry at me, especially my boyfriend, I find I very hard to control my emotions and I break down into hysterical crying and stress (but this is all in private, not infront of others). Another thing is that recently (last few months) I’ve become really concerned about how I look physically and what others think of me to the point where I feel really stressed when meeting new people. I don’t think that I am depressed but does this sound like something I should get help for or should it just pass on it’s own? Thank you so much in advance and sorry if this isn’t clear

Sarah0901 Hey guys
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To be brief: Ive been feeling very nervous for a couple of months, (4-5 months), and have been having random depression (3 months). But as of late I’ve been having random crying sessions. One was long and it was hard to stop, the others were brief. I... View more

To be brief: Ive been feeling very nervous for a couple of months, (4-5 months), and have been having random depression (3 months). But as of late I’ve been having random crying sessions. One was long and it was hard to stop, the others were brief. I feel extremely worthless. k10 score: 36 I’m a girl in high school, with all the hormones and all that. Something was happening to me and a person a while ago, and when I felt uncomfortable with it, I reported it. It was hard coming to school after that. I felt like reporting it was the biggest mistake of my life. There’s not a day where I think “you would only have to deal with one thing a day, now you deal with hundreds.” I feel very anxious coming to school. I feel like running home so no one sees me go. I want to transfer schools but I don’t want to leave my friends. I’m ruining friendships and family relationships because I feel like they don’t understand. I sleep with a self loathing feeling every night. When Im with my friends I get happy and that sad feeling is there but I turned it off, it’s only there a little bit. That’s why I find it hard to take myself seriously. I can just feel happy now, so why was I sad then? I feel like these feelings are just a combination of my insecurities, the bullies and just my hormones. But I just want to be happy and value my little free time without my emotions being like this. I want to smile like it’s not forced. But I’m scared if it gets worse. Sorry if it’s a mess and long. Its 1 am and I have school today.

LonelyGirl04 Girl is mean to me for no reason...
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Hello, this is my first post on this website so I’m a bit nervous! So I’m by no popular at my school and i have very few friends. I tend to get very nervous and shy when I have to talk to people but I don’t think I’ll consider myself mean in any way ... View more

Hello, this is my first post on this website so I’m a bit nervous! So I’m by no popular at my school and i have very few friends. I tend to get very nervous and shy when I have to talk to people but I don’t think I’ll consider myself mean in any way as I try to be as nice as possible. There’s this one girl in my class: let’s just call her A: who ever since last year has been rather passive aggressive toward me but it wasn’t anything too much as we barely saw or talked to each other anyways. I have a very kind friend: let’s call her B, who is best friends with A. I don’t actually mind it very much but the few times A actually talks to me, it was in a very aggressive manner, something she never does to anybody else except for me and another one of my friends. I have done absolutely nothing to her; and I’ve always tried to be friendly towards her to no avail. Just today, I was put in a music assignment with A and B and I really didn’t think A wanted me in her group at all. When we were discussing the assignment, she would avoid my eye contact and make snarky and rude comments directed at me. One time, when I was trying to engage her in the conversation she specifically said “Will you stop staring at me and get on with it” in a very rudemanner even though she was the one not engaging in anything at all:(!! When I mentioned I liked 21 pilots, she said very loudly “21 pilots suck!!” In no context to my feelings. I think B noticed all this and tried to get A to stop being so uncooperative. However, A started telling her why she had to pick me as one of their group members out of everyone else when I was right in front of B listening to everything she’s saying!! I really wanted to confront her about it but I was too shy to talk back to her. Throughout the whole lesson, she was ignoring me and pretending I didn’t even exist and by the end of it, I felt like crying;( When me and B was saying our farewells, A came and said “hurry up B or you would be spending lunch with her (me basically)” really aggressively. i felt really down after this whole ordeal and I don’t quite understand why B hates me as much as she does. Maybe it’s because she thinks I’m a loser or something? I don’t think I have ever done anything mean to her at all and I was actually rlly nice to her on a couple occasions like lending her a pen when she needed one and sharing my maths notes with her. I’ve just been feeling pretty down about it and any help would be appreciated. Thank you!!

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