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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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KE15 My best friend is really stressed
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Hi my best friend is really stressed and im not sure how to help. She says to me that I can't really help in anyway but this overwhelming stress she has is starting to impact other points in her life. She's starting to get less and less sleep and is ... View more

Hi my best friend is really stressed and im not sure how to help. She says to me that I can't really help in anyway but this overwhelming stress she has is starting to impact other points in her life. She's starting to get less and less sleep and is starting to forget things and that's making her more stressed and when this has apparently happed before she stops eating. I am really worried and I really want to help in any way possible but I'm not sure how. We've had the conversation about how she's stressed but she seems to think I can't help her. Any advice is welcome thank you very very much.

webber Can anyone relate?
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Hello, I have been struggling with mental health for a long long time, and finally after being sick and tired of my out of control bizarre actions and behaviors I decided to seek help. I was diagnosed with bipolar last week. I'm not to sure how to fe... View more

Hello, I have been struggling with mental health for a long long time, and finally after being sick and tired of my out of control bizarre actions and behaviors I decided to seek help. I was diagnosed with bipolar last week. I'm not to sure how to feel abouf it. And I have a billion questions! If you are a young person with bipolar, how do you control yourself at work, in social situations, and when your by yourself?! Feeling crazy and out of control all the time is very exhausting and takes a toll on how others and most of all how you see yourself... Please if your in the same boat as I am, tell me how you got on the path to self development and control.

Hannahhhhhhh Got so drunk and now family hates me
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So recently, I’ve just been feeling really down, and I’m in a constant state of anxiety. So last night, I went to town for the first time and I got so so drunk, to the point where an ambulance was called. Two of my friends had to go home early becaus... View more

So recently, I’ve just been feeling really down, and I’m in a constant state of anxiety. So last night, I went to town for the first time and I got so so drunk, to the point where an ambulance was called. Two of my friends had to go home early because of me, and I feel so terrible, because I ruined their night. What’s worse, my family is very strict and catholic, and my mum saw me and no one in my family wants to talk to me and I feel like such a bad person. My two friends dropped me off, but the door was locked and they were banging on the door and yelling, and my mum also thinks it’s me which is really embarrassing, and words can’t describe e how guilty I’m feeling right now. Im 20, so I should know better and be better, but I suck so much, and I hate myself.

Lovenine Struggling with my Life
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I’m 21 year old female and I hate my life. Font get me wrong, I have amazing things within it such as my family & boyfriend but that’s it... I hate who I am... I’m in uni and it’s horrible - I dropped out in year 10 tried studying a little bit, faile... View more

I’m 21 year old female and I hate my life. Font get me wrong, I have amazing things within it such as my family & boyfriend but that’s it... I hate who I am... I’m in uni and it’s horrible - I dropped out in year 10 tried studying a little bit, failed - had a year off and just did my own thing then after I got a crappy job at a fast food restaurant and ended up quitting a few months later because the pay and the people were terrible. I thought this was a good thing cause it made me want to go to university and aim high and get a degree and a great job. But here I am... hating it - I want to drop out, I’m not a study person, I find it so boring and I have such a short attention span... it makes me depressed when I even think about having to do uni work... I hate the feeling but then when I think about dropping out and looking else where - I have no options! I feel trapped and I just want to cry because I don’t know what to do! I live with my boyfriend and he basically takes care of me, I buy my food and pay a little for rent but he pays majority... he is such an amazing guy and I feel like I am a burden to him... I failed one of my university subjects today and I’m so ashamed I don’t want to tell anyone - I don’t even want to enrol into it again. I tried looking for jobs outside of Uni, but majority of jobs in my area (I live in a small town) all require some sort of degree or experience... I just want to get a job and be earning a decent wage I can live off with my boyfriend... I’m still in university but everyday I think about it, I contemplate leaving... I know I have depression and I know it doesn’t help my feelings on my entire situation but I just don’t what to do... part of me feels the need to stay in uni and theother part just wants to curl up in bed and never leave. I don’t know, I don’t even know what I expect people to say to this. I guess I want advice - Is it just my depression taking over me and damaging my perception on university... And I’m 21 and still in first year because I have no motivation... I take on 2 subjects instead of 4 which has caused me to fall behind from people my own age. I don’t know what to - any advice is welcome - I just want to feel better and want to accomplish something

Budgieowner I want to improve my mental health but I lack motivation
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Hi, i struggle with anxiety on a daily basis and lately my thoughts have been getting more depressing everyday, I really want to improve my life style by trying to get into healthier habits to maybe improve my ways of thinking and such but, everytime... View more

Hi, i struggle with anxiety on a daily basis and lately my thoughts have been getting more depressing everyday, I really want to improve my life style by trying to get into healthier habits to maybe improve my ways of thinking and such but, everytime I try I just feel tired and I lose motivation to stick to my plans and just think what’s the point I was wondering does anyone have an tips for small goals I could try to achieve on a daily basis to maybe help my motivation? I do really want to get better but i am struggling with actually motivating myself to do things. Any advice would be helpful Thanks

DanTheMan001 School Problems
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Hello Forums! I am having trouble at school. I feel isolated at school because I feel like everyone hates me. Sometimes I just think, "Kill me, please." all the time. I really want to move schools but my parents think that will impact my education. A... View more

Hello Forums! I am having trouble at school. I feel isolated at school because I feel like everyone hates me. Sometimes I just think, "Kill me, please." all the time. I really want to move schools but my parents think that will impact my education. As if my education isn't already being impacted. I have seen counsellors and teachers, but I don't know what to do. Sometimes I just want to fall asleep and not wake up or just have a different life. It would mean a lot to me if someone helped me.

Tmckay Help me.
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Hi, I am 15 and am I think I may have depression. I am not completely sure about this and don’t want to ask my mum because I am not 100% sure. I have just been feeling really melancholy and just meh about things and have not wanted to do anything or ... View more

Hi, I am 15 and am I think I may have depression. I am not completely sure about this and don’t want to ask my mum because I am not 100% sure. I have just been feeling really melancholy and just meh about things and have not wanted to do anything or see anyone. I have been crying for the majority of the week with no reason behind it. I talked to my friend who has depression and asked what she felt and it was similar to what I feel. Most of the things I have read say it lasts for two weeks or more but I have been off and on. I may just be feeling weird but I don’t think so. xx Tmckay

Guest_5206 I feel as if I am the only one in the world to suffer from an anxiety involving synchronicity
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Hello, I am currently 17 years of age and had become an athiest a few months ago, I cannot see religion as real anymore and am struggling with the consequences and aftermath of an anxiety that started in 2014 when I was 12 years old. Up until I was 1... View more

Hello, I am currently 17 years of age and had become an athiest a few months ago, I cannot see religion as real anymore and am struggling with the consequences and aftermath of an anxiety that started in 2014 when I was 12 years old. Up until I was 12 I was a happy, excited, and curious young child who would enjoy anything, along with a constant fear of the rapture, sinning and going to hell (but those fears never got in the way of me enjoying the present nor got in the way of my life, and I never dwelled on the far future, and rarely thought of the near future), however during the middle of the year in 2014 I made the most horrid mistake of my life. Because I was religious (I was a Christian) I believed in synchronicity (coincidences with actual meaning behind them) and that it was good to ask God for signs, and unfortunately one day I saw a video of a blind boy, this made me wonder if it was possible that someone with healthy eyes and a healthy body could go blind in the future no matter what (somatic mutations). So out of my fear and curiosity I prayed to God to make cars with specific designs, custom registration plates, and and colours to come within a certain timeframe (one of them I asked to see a vintage car near my area, that had a certain colour, a coloured numberplate with a custom name and I saw this car exactly as how I prayed for a couple days later), I asked God to see these cars as a sign that I will go blind in my far future no matter what. About 9 out of 12 cars I asked for I saw, when this happened it was too coincidental to be dismissed, the idea that I will go blind in my far future no matter what has turned my life into a spiralling mess of feeling trapped, regretful and miserable. This has caused me to constantly dwell on blindness in the far future and I am unable to enjoy anything anymore. Despite me now being an athiest, I am worrying that synchronicity is real because of Quantum mechanics - in which anything is possible, and also because of Einstein's Block Universe theory of time where the past, present, and future all exist, this means that the future is unchangeable, and I can’t simply deny things that are held by science that even have evidence for it, I dont act or think philosophically, I believe things based on evidence. I know that if I never asked for signs (and therefore never suffered the anxiety) I wouldn’t have been forced to care about things like Synchronicity. Please dont involve religion.

Bec98 needing a listening ear.
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I don’t really know why I’m here… I guess I just don’t know who to talk to. Well it’s not that I don’t know who to talk to, it’s that I have no one to talk to. I am 20 years old and I can safely say I have no friends, zero. I was bullied in high scho... View more

I don’t really know why I’m here… I guess I just don’t know who to talk to. Well it’s not that I don’t know who to talk to, it’s that I have no one to talk to. I am 20 years old and I can safely say I have no friends, zero. I was bullied in high school and what little friends I did come out with I haven’t heard from in months. Even with that they would never understand what is going on in my life. For the last 10 years my mother, sister and myself have been abused by my stepfather (soon to be ex), and I have really been struggling to find some sort of "normal". For the last 10 years I have been told ‘it’s all in your head; mental health isn’t real; your making it up; if you don’t have a physical bruise or mark, it is not abuse.’ so anytime i breakdown, like I did tonight, I feel weak and I have this stupid voice in the back of my head telling me you’re making it all up. I have been to the psychologist and been through the whole ‘it’s not in your head, it’s okay to feel this way’ blah blah blah; but half my life has been the complete opposite, being told it is not okay to be the way I am, and I am really struggling to adjust to this change. I missed out on my teenage years. Going to parties, hanging out with people, just being a teen. I refused to go to parties or out with anyone because that would mean leaving my mother alone with that monster. I was so scared That I would come home and find her in a pool of blood or worse. I couldn’t live with myself if that happened. Even when i had to go out (on the rarest of times) i would be texting mum non stop worried sick that something would happen. I know i have been babbling on for a long time and I still have so much more i need to get out. Right now I feel like this computer is my only friend. I really just need someone to hear me, even if this never gets read i just need to get this all out. I need to stop bottling it up. If someone out there does read this, and are having their own problems and wants an ear, I’m here. And I could really use one too.

Guest_357 I need to talk to someone who actually understands
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Just for clarification, I am a 15 y/o girl. I have had anxiety all through life but it’s never been a massive thing for me. Sometimes I would think about something that worries me but I’d distract myself and it would be okay. im uncomfortable saying ... View more

Just for clarification, I am a 15 y/o girl. I have had anxiety all through life but it’s never been a massive thing for me. Sometimes I would think about something that worries me but I’d distract myself and it would be okay. im uncomfortable saying what my anxiety is about as thinking about it really scares me. All I will say is that it’s not something I can control and I will be triggered really easily. I’ve seen my school counsellor and she’s helped me but it’s hard still. I’ve been having panic artacks so I’m allowed to leave class whenever I feel worried. My mum doesn’t understand it and gets really mad at me. She thinks I can control it and stop my panic attacks easily. It of course, is not the case. She makes me go to school and I really hate it. I cry nearly every class because I get so worried. Even though I know my thoughts are a bit irrational I can’t srop thinking them. My my whole life I’ve also done this thtung where if I’m nervous I pick at my skin. It’s really hard to not do it even though i know it’s probably not good for me. my sisters don’t understand why I can’t tell them and get angry at me for it. Honestly? I feel like a mess. Dont feel as if you should have to go out of your way to reply but it would be very much appreciated. *Please excuse spelling mistakes I’m typing quite fast to get this all out.

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