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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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VekiJ123 Need Some Advice
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I know my problems are probably nothing compared to everyone else's here. But I guess I just really need some advice... So, I'm just an average (if not below average) girl, I'm 13 going on 14 in 3 months. I'm an only child, have a good relationship w... View more

I know my problems are probably nothing compared to everyone else's here. But I guess I just really need some advice... So, I'm just an average (if not below average) girl, I'm 13 going on 14 in 3 months. I'm an only child, have a good relationship with my parents, going okay with my friends... but lately, everything just seems kinda empty. When I smile, I rarely mean it. When I laugh I feel like its forced. When people cry I do my best to encourage them when really, all I want to do is break down into tears and cry somewhere no one will see me. During the rare times people compliment me, I say thank you but don't mean it since I don't believe what they said was true. I'm weird and ugly. I basically look like an awkward asian nerd going through a terrible teenage puberty phase... sorry if that's TMI. Also, I'm very self-conscious and insecure about my appearance. I'm not pretty and if I'm being honest, I'm basically on the definition of below average. When I look in the mirror I see a girl with dark circles under her pathetic tear-filled eyes, staring into the mirror with her thickly lensed glasses... I see a girl who again is going through that stage of puberty with a face hella ugly. I see a girl with dark hair that's too thick. A girl who can't accept herself but wishes to be accepted. A girl who loves but know she can't be loved. I don't know how to express my feelings well, I'm not good with words. I'm usually just the "a hug comforts it all" kinda person, since I really have nothing to say. I just really wish I had that someone who could understand... My best friends, I don't tell them about my insecurities and social anxiety even though I should since their my bffs... But I've been from one friendship to another, and in the end, they either leave because I'm not good enough, or they leave for popularity - leaving me behind coz I'm just a minus to their "reputation". Also, my bffs now are the people who, if you tell them about a problem your facing, will tell you to cry a river, build a bridge and get over it. But I've tried to get over it, and I just can't. Whenever I have one of my moody days, they joke around and tell me that I look like I'm "crippling depression", when they don't realise how I'm actually on the borderline of becoming depressed. I'm scared of rejection, of not being accepted... I feel I'm not good enough... So I guess to sum things up, I just really need some advice on how to deal with anxiety, self-acceptance and pain.

PidgeIsAmazing I need to find a way to tell my parents how I'm feeling.
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Hi, people reading So I been finding that I've just been tired all the time and I'm struggling to fall asleep. My parents just put it down to not doing enough activities during the day. I've also been feeling empty, yet heavy aIl the time, my parents... View more

Hi, people reading So I been finding that I've just been tired all the time and I'm struggling to fall asleep. My parents just put it down to not doing enough activities during the day. I've also been feeling empty, yet heavy aIl the time, my parents put it down to not doing schoolwork. Every time I try to tell my parents what happening with me, I get either tongue tied or they don't care. I just feel like they won't understand and I'll be stuck feeling like this forever. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I was diagnosed with high functioning ASD when I was 12.

HiImCasey worrying about everything help?
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Hey, im almost 21y/o and feel like I haven't achieved in my life. I finished all my studies about 2 years ago and since then, I have not done anything. I'm trying really hard to get a job but just keep getting knocked back. I have very little confide... View more

Hey, im almost 21y/o and feel like I haven't achieved in my life. I finished all my studies about 2 years ago and since then, I have not done anything. I'm trying really hard to get a job but just keep getting knocked back. I have very little confidence and I also find that I worry about everything! I don't drive because I worry about stuffing up, I hating doing thing by myself because I worry. I can't use the phone because I worry about what to say. i also suffer from anxiety (ever since I finished school) and will get frequent headaches (that worry me even more) I feel like I can't do anything because I worry I'll get a headache. Then I worry about my health and the fact that I take a lot of panado (I have it atlease 2-3 times a week) l.. I have a low pain tolerance and panic at any sort of pain i enjoy reading and craft and housework but find that it is only a temporary remedy can anybody else give me some suggestions or feel the same way? i feel like I'm wasting life and not living to my full potential i love to travel and really want to gain my confidence to do stuff and experience new things

TC1801 Scared to start a new job
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Um, hi? I'm new to all of this so, I'm kind of freaking out, but I need to ask someone who isn't completely biased to help me out. I recently agreed to start a casual position at a fast food franchise, and I'm terrified. I've worked in a different fr... View more

Um, hi? I'm new to all of this so, I'm kind of freaking out, but I need to ask someone who isn't completely biased to help me out. I recently agreed to start a casual position at a fast food franchise, and I'm terrified. I've worked in a different franchise before hand and only lasted a couple of weeks before I became so anxious that in the span of about a week I had 5 separate panic attacks, 2 in one day. And I'm just really really scared. What if I have more at this new place? What if they don't like me? What if someone yells at me while I'm at work? What if I loose my social life that I only just started to gain? I don't know what to do and some of the thoughts I'm having lately are really scaring me. I just don't know how to cope with any of this and I'm just really really worried and scared. So I don't know if any one has any tips or maybe any coping strategies or if I just wanted some one to listen without them crying the second I say something doesn't seem quite right with me.

Liam007 Will lose all my friends
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Since about July last year, I've had this circle of friends who I've been seeing and spending time with. No longer am I high school student, nope full on out there in the adult world. I feel like a burden on my friends as they see me suffer from anxi... View more

Since about July last year, I've had this circle of friends who I've been seeing and spending time with. No longer am I high school student, nope full on out there in the adult world. I feel like a burden on my friends as they see me suffer from anxiety attacks a lot. Like they will say something and I'll freak out thinking they want me to cut me off from their social circles. One of them had a boyfriend and I was seeing her a lot so I wrote to her explaining that I respected her relationship and I wouldn't try to change it. I just wanted to be her friend and if it seemed I wanted to pursue that path with her it was purely unintentional. Mostly due to a horrible experience I had in high school where a guy got extremely mad that I was talking to his girlfriend during lunch break. He screamed at her and then threatened me later. She separated from him because of how she spoke to me, so I blamed myself for that incident. Me and this high school friend are still friends to this very day also I've just been getting worse and worse, panic attacks all the time. Sometimes they get frustrated, over times they lightly laugh about how much I tend to be Mr.Worry from the Mr.Men books. I write to them very frequently, worrying that if I don't I will be forgotten and will slip from their minds. ​I feel like I'm not what they want or need. I feel like I'm going to get abandoned almost everyday.

laa Extreme Anxiety & Moderate Depression (University Student)
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I will try and keep this as short as possible - but I do have a lot on my mind. So, I am a 20 year old University student who should be in her 4th year of university. In reality I have only finished 1 year! The reason being that people and conversati... View more

I will try and keep this as short as possible - but I do have a lot on my mind. So, I am a 20 year old University student who should be in her 4th year of university. In reality I have only finished 1 year! The reason being that people and conversation scare me so much that I do not attend any of my classes; not even lectures. I live with my parents who think that I will be completing University at the end of next year, but this it not true. I still only attend uni out of routine so that my parents think that I am attending classes. I feel my anxiety started around in 2011 (I was in grade 10), but I used to give it the name of 'shyness'. Slowly that changed when I started uni & realised that something is not right. I have had a rough childhood, but I will not go into the details of that. My teachers in school always knew something was wrong, and have always tried to help me out. I was really violent in school (since primary school), however, I was always a teachers pet. They definitely knew something was wrong when I started bullying this girl at school (and got suspended). Despite having their help readily available to me, I was too scared to talk to them about what was happening behind the scenes - I really regret not getting their help now. Now my anxiety is at the point where even walking/sitting in public scares me. Eating in public scares me, so I go into the fitting rooms in shops and eat in there. I totally avoid any conversation. I totally avoid visitors when they come over to my house. At uni, I sit in the library in the most empty corner on the level with the least people. I have stopped going out (except for going to uni), and I don't have any friends. Physically, I think anxiety is taking over where my chest starts hurting & I feeling dizzy. I get dry mouth and sweat like crazy! Headaches are also prominent and I get dreams where I feel like I cannot move or breath (they are scary because it actually feels like it is happening). I think I will stop here, but I have missed a lot of details. Basically I do not know what to do next, I know I need to do something because this is just getting worse and worse, but I am too scared to talk to anyone. I have thought about seeing the counselor at uni, but off course, just the thought of going to their office is putting me off. Thank you taking your time out to read this.

LaylaBear15 I really hate everyone in my family
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My family just put me down and purposely, put me down and I tell them how I feel and they pretend to listen but honestly, they couldn't care less Someone talk with me -Layla

My family just put me down and purposely, put me down and I tell them how I feel and they pretend to listen but honestly, they couldn't care less Someone talk with me -Layla

Ironbark 21/F - I've hit the wall.
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Hi all, I've signed up here after endlessly googling and trying to understand the dense fog thats surrounded my brain for 10 years. My life is a picture of wasted potential. I barely function, I get upset and angry whenever I'm questioned, my head co... View more

Hi all, I've signed up here after endlessly googling and trying to understand the dense fog thats surrounded my brain for 10 years. My life is a picture of wasted potential. I barely function, I get upset and angry whenever I'm questioned, my head constantly feels like it's going to explode. I used to enjoy art and music, but now they just seem like distant pleasantries that someone else with my face used to enjoy. When I flip through my old sketchbooks I feel like I'm holding someone else's property, someone else's dreams and desires, someone that used to soar through the clouds while I'm here with my feet stuck in tar. I fantasise about terminal illness and death, as I feel that would easier explain my complete lack of life to friends and family. Depression ate my personality and I don't know how to redevelop it. I'm not sure what I expect posting here, maybe someone else feels the same way. Any advice would be welcomed, as I feel like theres no escaping the hole.

Lonegirl Overwhelming anger
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Hey, I am a 14 year old girl. I used to be level headed and in control but now i can't. I will get angry over little things and not talk to someone for hours at a time. Or i would get really upset and burst out crying and screaming at everyone. Every... View more

Hey, I am a 14 year old girl. I used to be level headed and in control but now i can't. I will get angry over little things and not talk to someone for hours at a time. Or i would get really upset and burst out crying and screaming at everyone. Everyone says that i overeat too much and they find it very annoying. My mum told me that she has noticed this behavior going on for a few months now. While writing this i am very mad at my mum. My cousin has been doing drugs for a few years now and recently my mum has taken him as if he was her own. She is forgetting about me and forgetting i have feelings too, i just want to be loved by her. Today she gave him our couches (that i have had since i was a baby) without me even knowing because my parents said i could use them for an outside area and then they also brought a new couch that i hate more than anything without me even knowing either and a stereo i used on a daily basis. She also have him a phone, the xbox, money and many other things. She says that she wants the best for him and he needs to start learning how to work his money but why does she keep giving him stuff, my stuff, stuff i grew up with and that i am apart of without my consent nor approval. Once he left i broke into a huge rage and am now completely ignoring my mum for the last 3 hours. I was so angry that i took out a ruler and stabbed a pen into it multiple times and broke into tears, after that i spent an hour writing a persuasive essay about how mad i was at her and him. She keeps pretending she is the victim saying "when will you stop being angry" but that makes it so much worst. I do not share my feelings and never talk about them to people i know, so i never tell my parents or my friends anything.

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