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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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anonymo_us Life is so overwhelming
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I just feel like life is so hard right, I’ve been taken off my adhd medication, it’s been 2 months and I’m finding life extremely difficult. I’m crying all the time, I’m easily overwhelmed, I can’t work with needing to take a minute to stop crying cu... View more

I just feel like life is so hard right, I’ve been taken off my adhd medication, it’s been 2 months and I’m finding life extremely difficult. I’m crying all the time, I’m easily overwhelmed, I can’t work with needing to take a minute to stop crying cuz my head is just going insane. I feel like I’ve just lived for everyone else for my whole life and never discovered myself and now I’m an adult I have no idea who I am, what I want to do with a career, I have no passion to want to do things for me. I’m just so over not being able to do what I want cuz I don’t even know what that is and I feel like I can’t do it cuz everyone around me just judges my every move

ceoofoverthinking Need help to get over someone.
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hey there! I’m a 19 yo asking for advice on how to get over someone. So over a year ago I met this guy in my first year of uni. I went to an all girls high school so I had zero experience with dating and flirting. This guy asked me out a few weeks af... View more

hey there! I’m a 19 yo asking for advice on how to get over someone. So over a year ago I met this guy in my first year of uni. I went to an all girls high school so I had zero experience with dating and flirting. This guy asked me out a few weeks after we met. I said yes. The date went really well, but I also wasn’t sure what a good date or a good connection was supposed to feel like due to my lack of experience. I ended up pushing him away, saying it was the wrong timing. A month later, he wrote a song about that day, how he was sad that I’d left so abruptly and performed it at a talent show that he organsied. My friend sent me a video of it and the lyrics were so sweet. I had moved back home from uni by this point, living in a different city. Despite this, I reached out to him, not mentioning the song. We reconnected, started talking. A few months later I went to see him in a play. He then invited me to his 19th birthday party, where we shared a few cute moments and almost kissed. A big deal for me. AND he performed the song in front of me. A week after the party he travelled to my city to go on a date with me. But the date was a disaster. Not only did I unknowingly have Covid, I did a lot of things without thinking. Such as telling him he was my first date and that I’d never been in a relationship. I came off as anxious, desperate, codependent, obsessive, clingy and shallow. Not a true reflection of who I am at all. Anyway, after that date he told me we were better of as friends. I was so completely guttered. So not only did I feel mad at myself for saying and doing the things I did, mainly due to my sick delirium, I was mad because I couldn’t justify feeling heartbroken over a relationship that never happened and was entirely a projection of my own first relationship fantasy. A year later and I still haven’t seen him. Though I did send a message to apologise for everything I said and did that day. We don’t talk anymore. I just want to know why I still always catch myself ruminating on that one day, even a year later? He’s hosting another annual talent show at my old uni tomorrow. A uni I am still emotionally attached to. That might be a reason these feelings have resurfaced. It doesn’t help that I’ve had quite a lonely life since moving back to the city. I feel like it still constantly eats away at me. Whenever I’m feeling low, which is often these days, my mind goes straight to that memory. How can I overcome this and move on?

mangoose Hanging out with friends
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Hi, how are you all today?Right now I wanted to talk about an experience, which has been bothering me recently. My best friend (lets call her A), gets really jealous when I hang out with other friends, and constantly confronts me and asks why she was... View more

Hi, how are you all today?Right now I wanted to talk about an experience, which has been bothering me recently. My best friend (lets call her A), gets really jealous when I hang out with other friends, and constantly confronts me and asks why she wasn't invited. I always feel so bad for her, but her questioning has recently made me feel very uncomfortable. It has gotten to the point now, that whenever I go out with other friends, I am scared that she might find out and start questioning me again. At first, I didn't think too much of her questioning, however as time has passed, the questions really get on my nerves. She usually asks questions like "Oh, but why didn't you invite me?", or "You and (name) hung out without me?!". Questions like these in general, and I really no longer know what to do. I have mentioned to her before, to please stop asking but it fell on deaf ears. I am not really sure what to do, is this a universal experience? I would really appreciate some advice on how to approach this situation. Hope you all have a nice day!

Jess_P2001 People’s Opinions
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I’ve been noticing a lot that people are basing their opinion of me off someone who i am not friends with anymore opinion. It’s really getting to me because i was somewhat friends with these people before i had a falling out with this person and now ... View more

I’ve been noticing a lot that people are basing their opinion of me off someone who i am not friends with anymore opinion. It’s really getting to me because i was somewhat friends with these people before i had a falling out with this person and now it seems like they instantly choose her side. I’m not nasty and am always friendly to people so it gets me down a bit that they can’t make up their own opinion on me based on their own experience. The falling out was purely due to just not getting along as friends anymore. Is this common in early 20s or is it the people Im around, or just my experience. It causes a lot of anxiety when i’m in social settings now as i feel so judged and unwanted and instantly shut myself out because of this. I’m not nasty and i never cause drama or anything like that so i just feel lost.

Jia15 Loneliness and worried
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Hi im feeling worried and sad because i feel very lonely and i dont know how to make friends online irl i try but it dosent work i wish there was an app to make friends

Hi im feeling worried and sad because i feel very lonely and i dont know how to make friends online irl i try but it dosent work i wish there was an app to make friends

emmie123 Friendship problems
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I have 2 friendship groups, one specifically I’ve gotten really close to in lockdown. Over time I’ve drifted apart but I still hang out with them. Lately when I hang out with them they never really talk to me. When we hang out they always look at me ... View more

I have 2 friendship groups, one specifically I’ve gotten really close to in lockdown. Over time I’ve drifted apart but I still hang out with them. Lately when I hang out with them they never really talk to me. When we hang out they always look at me weirdly, when I wave in the hallway they don’t even spare me a glance. When I ask how their day(s) are going they reply ‘ok’ and move on. I feel like the friendship might be one sided but I can’t tell if I’m being dramatic and too sensitive? Because maybe it’s my fault but none of them have ever told me I was doing anything wrong so I’m not sure.

piper-21 Panic and parents
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Hi. So I've been feeling pretty crap recently and was just wondering if anyone can relate?I've thought about talking to my parents about it, but they are always dismissive, and make frequent jokes about how 'mental health' is stupid and everyone need... View more

Hi. So I've been feeling pretty crap recently and was just wondering if anyone can relate?I've thought about talking to my parents about it, but they are always dismissive, and make frequent jokes about how 'mental health' is stupid and everyone needs to grow up and get some real problems. I don't know what to do about it, because I know I'm not okay, but whenever I talk to them my mum says 'it's probably hormones'. They are a nurse and a doctor so they don't have much empathy when it comes to mental health as opposed to physical health, and often don't realise that the things they say are harmful. I've had panic attacks before and am often highly stressed, usually about trivial things, but I've never talked to a GP or counsellor before about anything. I don't have a very good relationship with my mum, she's not very physically affectionate, and it's really hurtful. I feel immensely guilty because I know my problems are so minor compared so some people, but I just wanted to know if anyone felt the same, or had any advice.

Willowtree_21 Twice exceptionality - autism and 'giftedness'
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Hey beyond blue community, I never thought to do this 'til now, but I am wondering if there are any other '2E' people out there. The term 2E or twice exceptionality refers to when you have giftedness as well as something like a learning disorder or a... View more

Hey beyond blue community, I never thought to do this 'til now, but I am wondering if there are any other '2E' people out there. The term 2E or twice exceptionality refers to when you have giftedness as well as something like a learning disorder or autism. It's been really weird being a young adult with giftedness and autism. I feel like way more people know about autism than giftedness, so everything feels like it becomes about my autism. There seems to be little mention of how being gifted impacts my life, only my autism. I ask because I often feel really alone. These days I find my giftedness more isolating than autism. I know a lot of wonderful young people with autism but I just don't feel like I relate to the things that they struggle with. For instance, sound and light aren't a big deal to me as an autistic person. But they are to some people. What gets me more is probably aspects of my giftedness, like always being the youngest in uni, hiding how well I do academically because I don't want to show off and not getting my young adult peers. I just feel like a total imposter because I have both of these things. Being gifted means that I have achieved really great marks at uni - while being years younger. But because I'm autistic and anxious, I experience a lot of issues around anxiety and being perfectionistic. Still, these go by unnoticed because how could be something wrong with the teenager whose years ahead of everyone? Anyway, just wondering if anyone has felt something like this. Just a bit tired of feeling invisible. Of my autism being invisible to my giftedness, and my giftedness being invisible to my autism. I don't know if that even made sense!

ocean-man It feels like such a miserable time to be alive
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All I seem to see on the news nowadays is either bad stuff, REALLY bad stuff, or convenient distractions from the variants of bad stuff. The climate is poisoned, the animals are dying, the landfills keep piling higher. Inflation's soaring higher by t... View more

All I seem to see on the news nowadays is either bad stuff, REALLY bad stuff, or convenient distractions from the variants of bad stuff. The climate is poisoned, the animals are dying, the landfills keep piling higher. Inflation's soaring higher by the millisecond, our currency is frail and weak and our houses are growing ever more expensive. Oh, but don't worry - the Matildas are playing tonight! I was expecting to leave high school with my head held high and a smile on my face, looking out over a world of opportunity and possibility. However, I now expect to leave high school with microplastics choking my lungs and a million mortgage papers in my arms. I may very well go homeless at some point in the next few years.And even if I do make it out of this deathtrap okay I'll probably be screwed over later down the line. The only jobs I've got talent/passion for are being snatched up by AI left, right and centre. Good luck to me I guess. I really do wish I could just tune out from everything and run off somewhere society won't find me - where I can throw all my tech away and just enjoy my life as is, which is what we were all born to do. Yet as nice as that sounds that yields its own plethora of problems. No healthcare, no assistance, no supplies - you truly do have to rely on your own. It feels like there's no way out. It'll probably get better at some stage but I'm having a very hard time picturing it doing so.

friedchicken Can't bring myself to get out of bed.
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I'm not sure if this is the right area to post in but I've really being struggling to do anything lately. I'm 20 years old and began a TAFE course in July about something that I'm really interested in. The thing is though, I've been struggling to get... View more

I'm not sure if this is the right area to post in but I've really being struggling to do anything lately. I'm 20 years old and began a TAFE course in July about something that I'm really interested in. The thing is though, I've been struggling to get out of bed to go since the second week of the course. It has been about two weeks since I've gone. I've done this kind of thing several times, ever since year 7. I've dropped out of high school about three times, and left another TAFE course that I was doing last year. Recently, I've been doing really well in life and even managed to go off anti depressants earlier this year, so I have no idea how I got into this rut and I'm really mad at myself for doing the same thing over and over when it comes to school. I'm spending all my days in bed, and ordering a bunch of food in pretty much every day so I don't have to do anything. I really want to go back to TAFE but I'm terrified of receiving judgement from the teachers and classmates. They will probably all know each other super well now and I won't really know anyone and they'll probably think I'm weird. I could potentially try speak to a counsellor at the TAFE, but their submission form is broken and I'm too embarrassed to do that anyways. I booked an appointment with a therapist for the end of this week but I feel like I'm at my limit so I wanted to try posting here.

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