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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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Spudnic1 Don't know what to do
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I broke up with my boyfriend because I didn't want him getting hurt because of my ways. I would always take everything out on him or cry to him constantly. Always lashing out at him for stuff that was getting me down. We recently got back together be... View more

I broke up with my boyfriend because I didn't want him getting hurt because of my ways. I would always take everything out on him or cry to him constantly. Always lashing out at him for stuff that was getting me down. We recently got back together because we missed each other a lot and we still cared a lot about each other but I'm really struggling to give him space. I'm always texting him and i get frustrated if he doesn't reply or he is having fun without me. I feel horrible and I know I'm pushing him away but he told me he would never leave my side. I don't know what to do to stop myself because I feel like I can't live without him. It sucks but I just cry when I'm not around him and I can't sleep at night when he's not there.

Angelcakes Feels like I'm wasting my life
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Hi everyone, I'm a 20 year old girl who spends most of her time at home playing video games and watching Netflix. I work at a take away place once, maybe twice a week and have zero qualifications apart from my higher school certificate. I know it see... View more

Hi everyone, I'm a 20 year old girl who spends most of her time at home playing video games and watching Netflix. I work at a take away place once, maybe twice a week and have zero qualifications apart from my higher school certificate. I know it seems silly to be worrying so much about wasting my life when I'm only 20 but I don't know what I want to do and sitting at home all the time has only made me lazier and more uncomfortable with studying or working. I often call in sick, not because I'm too lazy to work but because most days I just don't feel up to interacting with people. I know it's stupid and it's only going to make finding another job harder. It doesn't help that I really hate my job. I'm always looking for a new one but I don't have my license and get very anxious on public transport and I don't feel like there are any jobs advertised that I would be any good at. My boyfriend and I live in a tiny unit with my mother and we desperately want to move out, but can't until I find a job with more shifts and more money. I'm too scared to even apply for jobs and I don't know what I would want to study at all, but even leaving home seems like so much effort most days. I just don't know what to do with myself and I'm scared I'll end up stuck like this forever. P.S sorry about the long rant guys. Just venting, I'm driving myself crazy over here and my boyfriend always just tells me not to worry about it - like that helps.

Summ_Wayt Lost
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I don't know who I am, who to trust or who to be anymore. I don't know if I should open up or close up, trust people or get through it on my own. People rarely keep things to themselves these days leading to many rumours. Should I open up? Has anyone... View more

I don't know who I am, who to trust or who to be anymore. I don't know if I should open up or close up, trust people or get through it on my own. People rarely keep things to themselves these days leading to many rumours. Should I open up? Has anyone else been in my situation, the decision to keep to myself or to trust again? Because I don't know anymore.

PurpleAngel333 Feeling lonely and lost
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Hi everyone, I'm new to the forums and needed to ask what I should do, I've had a lot going on in my personal life in the last few years and especially in the last six months. Lately I've been getting upset, teary-eyed and angry over things that usua... View more

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forums and needed to ask what I should do, I've had a lot going on in my personal life in the last few years and especially in the last six months. Lately I've been getting upset, teary-eyed and angry over things that usually don't bother me and I'm wondering if I'm suffering from depression, any thoughts or strategies to ease this, thanks

Matchbox Telling Coach about Depression
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Hi, I am meant to have a chat with my coach some time next week. I have never, ever been good at expressing my feelings. I literally choke up, can't say anything and couldn't possibly know where to start. Im hoping that I can hopefully get through th... View more

Hi, I am meant to have a chat with my coach some time next week. I have never, ever been good at expressing my feelings. I literally choke up, can't say anything and couldn't possibly know where to start. Im hoping that I can hopefully get through this. Any tips?? Background - Im 19 and I have suffered with depression for about 4 and a half years now, mainly due to bottled up feelings. I have only seen a psychologist once at it was the worst experience of my life. I think my coach will advise me to see one and I really do not want to. Plus Im scared he'll tell my mum which scares me to death. I know those two things will be the outcome and Im seriously considering calling this thing off and just going with the flow like I have all these years

booperdooper Hello everyone
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Hi there, I'm currently undergoing counseling for depression and anxiety. I started having depression and anxiety since early secondary school but I finally managed to get help around two months ago. I'm looking forward to talk to you all or maybe as... View more

Hi there, I'm currently undergoing counseling for depression and anxiety. I started having depression and anxiety since early secondary school but I finally managed to get help around two months ago. I'm looking forward to talk to you all or maybe ask for help. Nice to meet you!

Elizabeth567 Im struggling
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I dont know if anyone can understand but thought posting on here may help. i am 22 years old and am having issues with my family. My mum was an alcoholic 2 years ago and i struggled through that at home but always put on a brave face and continued on... View more

I dont know if anyone can understand but thought posting on here may help. i am 22 years old and am having issues with my family. My mum was an alcoholic 2 years ago and i struggled through that at home but always put on a brave face and continued on with my life and offered my mum support. She is good now and i have been living away from home to study at university for the past year. First time away from home. I came home to mum and dad week and my dad has been awful. He has yelled at me my whole life and is a very negative person. He never says anything positive and despite me being 22 he influences a lot of the decisions i make in my life. I am an only child so have no brothers and sisters that experience the same and my boyfriend dosnt understand. I dont want to tell my mum how i feel because i dont want her to relapse. I have been home for a week and had a couple of family arguments ending up with dad ignoring me for days. I have done nothing wrong. I am successful at sport, academics and have a good casual job yet he growls at me fkr the smallest things. He said ever since ive been home i have changed the family dynamic and caused the arguments , that hurts me and makes me feel so upset. My dads negativity and yelling is impacting my confidence, my self esteem and making me unhappy i feel like a failure. Im jealous of all my friends who get to have a happy family. I feel trapped. My dad wont let me stay and my boyfriends house and he says that when i run away tonsee him i make everything worse. So i dont know what to do, he will never say sorry or understand and i have noone else that i can truley talk to.

Bannanapeel14 I'm sick of these feelings and I don't know what to do...help!
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I am turning 16 in a few weeks and I have been having anxiety ever since I was 12 and I had a fear of brains. It trigged when my grandma firstly passed away from Dementia. Back when I was 12 I had no friends and I was bullied a lot and I hated being ... View more

I am turning 16 in a few weeks and I have been having anxiety ever since I was 12 and I had a fear of brains. It trigged when my grandma firstly passed away from Dementia. Back when I was 12 I had no friends and I was bullied a lot and I hated being lonely. But it got so bad because I was crying all the time and I felt sick and tried with my life, until I managed to push away the feelings from the help of new friends. I grew a little more mature but I got my past feelings back and my local doctor told me that it was anxiety. I started getting attacks and stuff and it scared me... I couldn't sleep and everyone thought I was crazy. My Mum has anxiety but not as bad as me. so I got help and recently just finished the sessions about two days ago. My mum as been making me and telling me on how I am going to get a job and I have been freaking out! I've done work experience. My dad has no idea how to deal with me and my mum has some idea. I started to write my resume and I couldn't find the words to say and my hands were shaking to type. My heart was beating so fast and my head was pounding so much that it hurt. So I was tearing up from the pain. It also didn't help when mum came in yelling at me and everything I said to her she replied with rubbish. I'm so sick and tired with my parents, they are the ones I want to understand and support me the most but they can't. My dad called me pig headed and a spoiled brat and my mum agreed with him. He told me that I'm hiding behind this stupid anxiety and that I can't get a grip. I was so angry because for 4 years I still have no idea what's in my head there are these voices as well. I don't get it, I really wish I could find somebody to help me cause I'm scared and I don't want anxiety anymore!!! I've tried a lot of things but everybody around me tells me to get a grip. Get over myself. All these things are pulling me down and stabbing me. The thing that's hurting me is no one is pulling me back up. No one is at least supporting me. I feel like I'm all alone in this terrifying world and that I don't want to kill myself cause I have already been down that path. I feel like knifes are in my heart and all over my body and my parents think that I have my life the easy way....well why doesn't it feel like it.

Tania11 Lost...
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this may not be the right place for me to be writing but im unsure of what to do.. My partner has been on meds for approx 2 yrs for depression. Recently he went to a party where he tried cocaine and things haven't been the same since. His behaviour w... View more

this may not be the right place for me to be writing but im unsure of what to do.. My partner has been on meds for approx 2 yrs for depression. Recently he went to a party where he tried cocaine and things haven't been the same since. His behaviour was horrendous during his comedown - psychotic. I threatened to take our son and leave - this is not how we live.. but once the anger subsided we talked and decided to move forward together. Ever since this incident - I dont know who this monster is. He is acting completely out of character. He has done some really strange and wrong things lately. In a bid to save our relationship we set some ground rules that I've discovered he has no regard for. He swears he wants me to stay but his actions speak different. I needed to check an email on his iPad and I found a POF link which lead me to his search history.. I found he was a member of 3 dating sites (no activity found) and had been watching strange porn. Im an open minded person but this was just weird. Once again decided to keep working at things. He has also suddenly been treating me very differently in the bedroom - like I'm an object. He is angry at me and my son all of the time also. We were an open couple that talked about everything but he's been doing impulsive things like swapping his car online, selling his tools and one day I came home and he was emptying the fish tank cause someone was coming to pick them up because he just decided to give them away I was unaware any of this was occurring. He has lost interest in everything family wise. We have Xmas traditions that we've done for the past 11 years and when I asked him about them he said "get f@&ked, I'm not doing that sh!t." He's very withdrawn from us. The worst part is he can't except responsibility for his wrong doing and has no remorse for his actions. Instead he searches for any excuse to turn it around so I'm the bad guy - why haven't u given up smoking cigarettes type thing - In all honesty they are the only things keeping me sane. I get very frustrated and angry at times despite trying to be calm and lose my cool and he blames the way I speak sometimes for his anger but he can't comprehend what's made me upset. i told him that if I could have the answer to just 1 question it would be WHAT THE HELL HAS HAPPENED TO U? I'm supportive and told him I'll help them thru whatever he's going thru. I just wonder if the coke has triggered a major chemical imbalance in his brain or if he's using..

rayofsunshine123 Feeling Nauseous and Constant Worry for a week!
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Hi guys, So ever since Monday I had this intrusive thought, and on Monday night I had trouble falling asleep by thinking about it. Then on Tuesday I woke up feeling really nauseous and panicky, but I don't know why. Ever since then, I've had this nau... View more

Hi guys, So ever since Monday I had this intrusive thought, and on Monday night I had trouble falling asleep by thinking about it. Then on Tuesday I woke up feeling really nauseous and panicky, but I don't know why. Ever since then, I've had this nauseous feeling in my tummy and occasional heart palpitations. I've tried deep breathing which has helped for a while, but then I return to this nervousness. I've also tried calm.com meditation and smiling mind, which both calm me temporarily. I also have moments of extreme panic, but then I calm down. Has this happened to any of you? Also I have come up with a conclusion for why I am worrying, but the thing is I'm not all that nervous about both situations (1. I'm moving school next year 2. I'm moving house next week.) I contacted my psychologist to seek an appointment, but am awaiting a reply. This has never happenedto me (I had the same thought a month or two ago, but I didn't feel like this, I mean I was worried, but not nauseous and it didn't disrupt me and it went away on its own.)and I want to just feel happy and not nauseous, because it is driving me crazy! Has this ever happened to you? What do you think is happening? What should I do? thanks so much! Ellie

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