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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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Scollie I don't know what to feel
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I tend to hold things in a lot, will reframe myself from posting on social media but will always have an urge to because I want to cry for help without feeling like an attention seeker. I feel like nothing is going right, and I always will compare my... View more

I tend to hold things in a lot, will reframe myself from posting on social media but will always have an urge to because I want to cry for help without feeling like an attention seeker. I feel like nothing is going right, and I always will compare my lives to others and dwell on how misshapen mine is compared to theres. I know I'm so young but why do I feel so much, why am I so dissatisfied with my life. I mean as cliche as this sounds, the only thing I look forwards to is my dreams at night. The only person I want to talk to won't talk to me and even if they did I don't even know how I would start this conversation. Everything is slowly digesting me, my heart aches non stop and I can't help but blame myself because I made these decisions that make me feel like shit. I feel like I have no one.

Magic_bunny Should I seek help or overthinking?
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Hi I am an international student who been away from home for 5 years so I don't have anyone on the sidelines to help identify if I have a problem or not as I'm pretty much on my own most of the times, only back for holidays. Hope you don't mind this ... View more

Hi I am an international student who been away from home for 5 years so I don't have anyone on the sidelines to help identify if I have a problem or not as I'm pretty much on my own most of the times, only back for holidays. Hope you don't mind this long explanation as I want to be thorough. So it's my first semester of uni and I haven't really make any friends, together with other stuff happening it lead to a bit of an self evaluation. I honestly don't think I am depressed cause I don't feel sad but here goes. It's been 4 years since I have had any close friends or tbh any friend's at all. Combined with the fact that I was bullied when I was in my country back in secondary school, I had only 1 close friend pretty much since I was 13 but whom I have not talked much to due to distance now that I'm overseas. I don't know why but I am not able to form any relationship at all, friendship and romantic which I'm really struggling with. In fact, its literally been 6 years since I made a friend and maintain that friendship or even a guy at all. But 1 thing I have been happy about is recently reconnecting with 4 of my childhood friends back home. Other than that, I don't feel the motivation to make friends or even step out of my room even though I do feel a little sad about the lack of friends.

Sarallita Confused about severe mood swings
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So I am generally a very happy and cheerful person, however for the last few months I've been getting into these very down moods. It started off as just feeling quite low when I was home and being extremely irritable and snappy, then feeling alright ... View more

So I am generally a very happy and cheerful person, however for the last few months I've been getting into these very down moods. It started off as just feeling quite low when I was home and being extremely irritable and snappy, then feeling alright the next day. Then it got to feeling very sad and lacking interest in most things I'd usually enjoy and crying quite a bit, and then suddenly one day I'd be fine (the sad period lasted a few days). Recently, I was feeling extremely sad to the point where I would sleep half the day and not want to get out of bed, I felt so low that my parents and a few friends noticed and would ask me what was wrong. I felt bored of life, had no interest in anything, I cried myself to sleep 3 nights in a row and I really did think I was depressed because I was absolutely miserable and nothing could cheer me up. This lasted about 5 days continuously and then I woke up one day and I felt back to normal. There's been about 1.5 month gap between the 2 noticeable sad periods. But now I'm just so confused because sure there's one thing being a moody teenager but I don't understand how my mood can get so severe to the point where I was about to go see my GP cause I was so sad. Also to note, I'm a 19 year old girl, have had past experience with mild mental health issues about 5/6 years ago however did not feel as bad as I have recently. Thanks in advance

Kittenx Why can't I love anyone else?
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When I was young use to be incredibly emotionally dependent on some body else to feel happy, I was always in and out of relationships and they all ended in heartache, I felt puppy love but the novelty always rubbed off until I met someone at the age ... View more

When I was young use to be incredibly emotionally dependent on some body else to feel happy, I was always in and out of relationships and they all ended in heartache, I felt puppy love but the novelty always rubbed off until I met someone at the age of 17, he was 23 and I was absolutely head over heels inlove, it lasted about a year and he was my best friend, we never had a fight or disagreement, he had a baby before we were together and our relationship ended when the mother of his child moved into state and he had to move to stay connected to his baby, I told him I completely understood and even though it broke my heart it meant more to me for him to be happy, I was trying to come to terms with the situation and move on when a short period after (I don't remember how long but it was a week or two) I found out he was in a relationship with a new girl which caused a falling out in our friendship so we stopped communicating. I was in two relationships after that but I never felt anything more for them then friendship, at the beginning I told them both I didn't want to be in a relationship with them but I was pressured into both relationships I guess due to my low self esteem I didn't know how to say just say no because I didn't want to hurt their feelings, after my last relationship ended I decided not to settle for anyone or commit until I learned how to be emotionally independent, it's now been 5 years since my last relationship and although I've had absolutely gorgeous guys try to peruse me in this time and I am so happy and confident with myself I just feel numb when it comes to boys and it makes me feel really sad, I'm now 25 and once in a blue moon he still pops into my head and I'll look at his facebook page, shortly after my last relationship I sent him a message asking to be friends and it went well for a week until he asked me to come over to his house and specified that I couldn't stay the night because he had to be up early for work, I took this as a "booty call with no strings" proposition and it made me realise if I saw him the feelings would still be there and I would get hurt and I'm not stupid enough to do that to myself so I decided to stop talking to him, I've really tried to move on but 8 years later and I still feel that pull toward him, will I ever be able to move on and be normal? It feels like I'll never care about anyone again, I really miss having that special thing with someone, I'm so sick of it and at this point I want help

Tired Emotionless
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It's kind of strange. I have this overwrought feeling of sadness and yet I don't really feel anything at all. I can't stop procrastinating doing my work. I don't want to fail, in fact I'm fairly sure I have an unhealthy fear of failure but whenever I... View more

It's kind of strange. I have this overwrought feeling of sadness and yet I don't really feel anything at all. I can't stop procrastinating doing my work. I don't want to fail, in fact I'm fairly sure I have an unhealthy fear of failure but whenever I go to do work I feel as though it's not worth it, yet when I see the minutes tick by submission time I cry and feel like my heart is being wrenched out of me. I've thought of suicide a few times but overall I know I won't as I have two things stopping me, my family and my cowardice. I love my family so much and I know they love me but I honestly don't think I'm worth their love. I'm nothing special and I never have been. I always get ok grades, I'm not some hidden genius nor a bimbo with no brain, I'm just as boring as everyone else really, I don't have anything I am really interested in, though I can spend hours online not doing anything. It sort of feels like a cloud over my eyes. I know my old self is pulling at me and I know I would have felt angry or happy at certain things so I can fake it easily, but really it just all seems like this fog has dulled down all my senses except sadness and that is only overall not to little things like it used to be. I have 'friends'. Their nice people really but I've learned through life experience that no one really cares about anyone other than themselves. They haven't noticed a change in me and I'm pretty sure if I just never contacted them again they wouldn't really be bothered. Actually that's how I feel about everything, as if my existence may as well just slip away. I'm pretty sure I'll never do anything great for the world and looking at how overpopulated the world is I know it really doesn't need me here acting like a sorry arse consuming consuming consuming. People like to tell you to be grateful for what you have as there are a lot of people with much bigger problems than you and perhaps you should be thinking about them. Well I do actually. I think that it's not fair that I, little miss unhappy and worthless, shouldn't be here, I would love to swap with someone who's having a hard life because they would deserve this life much more than I do. Anyway this is just a very long rant about a few things that I've been thinking , I doubt anyone will bother reading it as it is so long, and I don't blame them, I don't really blame anyone, I get people have their own life problems and I'm just acting like a bit of a twat but oh well. There you go.

Buddy1 Confused and numb
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Hi everyone. I'm unsure if I'm in the right place for this but my boyfriend and I only broke up last night. We were together for almost two years. He left me because our relationship was only going downhill. I tried to fight for us, but he had lost h... View more

Hi everyone. I'm unsure if I'm in the right place for this but my boyfriend and I only broke up last night. We were together for almost two years. He left me because our relationship was only going downhill. I tried to fight for us, but he had lost hope. He said he still loves me but things were getting too hard for him, which I can respect. He isn't a bad person at all for doing this but I still love him as much as I always have, I've had no sleep and I'm not coping well at all, I have amazing friends and family who are super supportive but I'm worried I'm going to be so down so often that they will get over it. I'm going to be facing him everyday at school, only for a few more months until we graduate, but I have no motivation for anything at all, I feel numb and aching. If anyone has any advice on what the best thing is or anything that could help I would really appreciate it. Thank you in advance

My-name-is-Jono Need some social advice
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I'm at school and in year 11, just started on holidays, and I need to stop playing computer games so I can focus on school. only thing is all my friends play computer games and i never get invited to any sort of events in real life so I just get so l... View more

I'm at school and in year 11, just started on holidays, and I need to stop playing computer games so I can focus on school. only thing is all my friends play computer games and i never get invited to any sort of events in real life so I just get so lonely which that puts me off school work. So I'm stuck in this middle ground and don't know what to do and just need advice or just an excuse to socialise so I don't feel so bad.

Yummy_bunny Relationship problem
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I am currently in a relationship. We were best friends before we started dating and we have a very relaxed relationship. I know he loves me and he does so much for me and always misses me and wants to see me. But for some reason I keep telling myself... View more

I am currently in a relationship. We were best friends before we started dating and we have a very relaxed relationship. I know he loves me and he does so much for me and always misses me and wants to see me. But for some reason I keep telling myself that he doesn't love me and I keep thinking about us breaking up and that I'm a terrible girlfriend. And scared he's going to leave me even though he has told me the only way we will break up is if I leave him first. There is no reason to be having these negative thought because we never have any big fights. Does anyone have have any advice for me to stop thinking so negatively

Alec29 Are my friends bullies/abusive or is it my fault am I the problem?
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Hi everyone I don't know how to start this but I have extremely low self esteem & sense of self worth (for full story look at my other posts if that would help you understand more) but my dad has always been emotionally abusive and I hate myself and ... View more

Hi everyone I don't know how to start this but I have extremely low self esteem & sense of self worth (for full story look at my other posts if that would help you understand more) but my dad has always been emotionally abusive and I hate myself and think i'm stupid and worthless etc. But this post is about my relationship with my friends. I have known them since year 8 and i'm in about to finish yr 11 they don't respect me at all. They post photos of me on Facebook without my permission and i have asked many times for them to stop but they just laugh and tell me its funny that im overreacting and tell me to shut up because apparently i love getting my life turned into a joke. The nickname they gave me in year 8 is the only thing they will call me my entire school calls me the nickname and no one is allowed to say my actual name because its a swear word and they make a joke out of everything in my life i have many chronic illnesses that really affect my life and they make jokes about them. Im allergic to cats i told them this and they put cat hair on me threw my friends cat at me and made it crawl over me when i was sleeping they keep doing it and laughing even when i was red and itchy and my eyes were so sore they steal my stuff out of my pocket and locker and hide it they run away from me they invite me out them passively hint that they don't want me to come. they make fun of all my problems they wont listen to me or listen to my opinion if i have an issue i cant talk to them about it i have literally begged them to stop doing the things they do and they just laugh and say that i'm over reacting and that i do like it its gotten to the point where i just go along with the joke because its easier. i cant answer questions they ask because i'm afraid that they will make a joke out of it and i cant trust them ever she asked if i liked Justin Bieber and i couldn't do it because i feel like she wants to make me feel bad. But the issue is i think the arguments are my fault I call one of the friends in particular mean names and i react very poorly to her annoying me or bullying me i call her fat and stupid because she's an easy target i only do this in retaliation to the above i get angry and lose it and I have explained to her many times I don't mean it that I'm sorry and that I just lose control and that its not an excuse but i need them to listen to me once in a while and i feel terrible i'm no better than them or my dad but i feel like its my fault. Cheers

qwerty1234 I need help
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I've been having trouble for a long time; when I was younger my mum always told me "you care too much". I got bullied a lot at the end of primary school and at the start of high school. I started taking "sick" days and going to class late to avoid co... View more

I've been having trouble for a long time; when I was younger my mum always told me "you care too much". I got bullied a lot at the end of primary school and at the start of high school. I started taking "sick" days and going to class late to avoid confrontation with the kids in my class and it was a really tough time but I only started feeling anxious until a few years later. I never told anyone until I got close with a few friends. They encouraged me to seek help but I was never brave enough. When I told my mum I wanted to kill myself I could see it slowly tearing her apart and I couldn't bear to watch her in this pain so I told her I felt fine and it was "just a phase". When I got to year 12, it was quite stressful but I was probably the happiest that year; I guess school distracted me? It came back when I went to university and is very much present now. The truth is, I don't even know what I have or if I have anything at all. I stress all the time, about everything. I can't sleep at night because I am constantly playing back stressful/painful situations in my mind and thinking about those to come. I do this all the time. I burp, get nauseous, and lately I have been getting chest pain when I stress. Then I stress about stressing and it peaks when I ponder the thought of my life always being this way. I want to be a doctor but how can I when I can't even deal with my own problems. There is nothing harder than telling someone about this and explaining to them that there is no reason you should be feeling this way, it is accomplishing nothing, but this is how my body works. There is no way I would be able to confront a doctor about this ongoing issue but it is clear to me I won't be able to go on otherwise. I am posting this because I would like advice on what I should do (I was thinking the first step is to see a GP?), who is a great doctor/where is a great clinic (I need to go to bulk billing because I have no money), but also, I don't want to back out of getting help again, so any advice on forcing yourself into going would also be good. I am 19 years old; Male; I am NOT burdening my family with this. Any help would be very much appreciated, thank you.

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