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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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Bodey294 no sense of purpose and always slump
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Hi There, i guess my depression is getting worse for me. without anxiety there is no depression and vise versa. both go hand in hand. I'm finding it extremely difficult openly talking to people and make friends. thats the anxiety and as a result depr... View more

Hi There, i guess my depression is getting worse for me. without anxiety there is no depression and vise versa. both go hand in hand. I'm finding it extremely difficult openly talking to people and make friends. thats the anxiety and as a result depression has almost entirely consumed me. Im halfway through the first year of university and only made one "friend" more of an acquaintance. i literally avoid everyone else. It takes hours for me to get to sleep, sometimes not at all, i get up mostly in the afternoons from oversleeping and i find it hard concentrating in lectures. you know how they say that your most likely to grow up like your parents. both true and unfortunate. my father is a committed stoic pessimist in which case he avoids emotions so well but at the cost of literally looking like a oblivious warn out old man struggling to hold on. he has hobbies (laborious jobs: gardening, fixing up gutters and fences, that are not made for his physical stamina by the looks of it) but not many friends. he's too out of touch with the people around him. this has influenced me a lot. my feelings have been bottled up for too long and don't know how long i can keep going like this. as a kid i used to be care free but i guess relationship problems with my family and peers got in the way.

sadgirl57 End of my rope
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Hi, so I've had depression and anxiety and whatnot for like years and I've tried dealing with it and getting help and I have a history of having to suddenly leave my job because I have mental breakdowns all the time... or the same one over and over. ... View more

Hi, so I've had depression and anxiety and whatnot for like years and I've tried dealing with it and getting help and I have a history of having to suddenly leave my job because I have mental breakdowns all the time... or the same one over and over. I just can't cope with working but I can't lose this job/my income and I don't know what to do. I went to the doctor and she said to go on antidepressants but I really don't want to do that and it's too far beyond that now. I'm really not good at looking after myself and I just don't know what to do.

tiffles93 Anxiety.
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I'm 22 and suffer from anxiety. I don't really have many friends anymore, I have a partner however it sometimes it doesn't feel like he understands what goes on in my head.​ I guess I'm seeking any kind of advice, I can get. More often than not, I wa... View more

I'm 22 and suffer from anxiety. I don't really have many friends anymore, I have a partner however it sometimes it doesn't feel like he understands what goes on in my head.​ I guess I'm seeking any kind of advice, I can get. More often than not, I wake up feeling flat and I have all these negative thoughts in my head, that I can't seem to shake off. I want to get better but I don't know how I can help myself. Some days are worse than others.. the worse days, just lead me to tears purely just because of the thoughts in my head. Any sort of advice and encouraging words, would be highly appreciated, as right now I feel like I'm battling this alone. Cheers..

bluesky95 little empty.
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I don't know why i feel this way and i don't want to. I can be talking to friends, sitting watching a movie or out going shopping and be enjoying what I'm doing and yet when i slow down or have a moment to my self i don't FEEL anything its like blank... View more

I don't know why i feel this way and i don't want to. I can be talking to friends, sitting watching a movie or out going shopping and be enjoying what I'm doing and yet when i slow down or have a moment to my self i don't FEEL anything its like blank fuzzy space. no matter what i do it is always just there.

Bodey294 hello, Im new to this
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hello people of Beyond Blue, um this is this first time I've really reached out to anyone really. Im not in a good place right now especially socially. Im have been experiencing anxiety and depression i feel like for almost my hole life. as a result ... View more

hello people of Beyond Blue, um this is this first time I've really reached out to anyone really. Im not in a good place right now especially socially. Im have been experiencing anxiety and depression i feel like for almost my hole life. as a result Im overly anti-social and very shy. so there. what do you think

Tamkay Feeling so trapped in anxiety.
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My anxiety has only really started to affect my life over the past few months. Though the past few weeks it has had a huge impact. I constantly have this voice in my head which tells me no one really cares about me and that everything I'm doing is wr... View more

My anxiety has only really started to affect my life over the past few months. Though the past few weeks it has had a huge impact. I constantly have this voice in my head which tells me no one really cares about me and that everything I'm doing is wrong. I feel so down & frustrated all the time because I'm alone. But I'm to scared to go out & socialise. I always feel so uncomfortable, even with friends who were once really close. My boyfriend gets annoyed because I tell him how I feel and he just says I'm being negative all the time & that everyone does like me & want me to go out places. I really just feel like living life is such a chore. I have had two panic attacks at work where I have had trouble breathing & was shaking uncontrollably. I always feel so scared of everyday people.. I have really low self esteem & just don't know where to go from here.

Ilovebunnies Am I depressed
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I don't know if I'm depressed or I just want to be. I know this sounds so strange but I have a habit of just wanting to be something & then doing it. I've been watching Skins for like the last 5 days & I don't know if I just want be like Cassie & Eff... View more

I don't know if I'm depressed or I just want to be. I know this sounds so strange but I have a habit of just wanting to be something & then doing it. I've been watching Skins for like the last 5 days & I don't know if I just want be like Cassie & Effy or if I'm actually depressed. I kind of felt like it before I started watching the show but I've noticed my feelings being aplified lately & I think it could be because the characters are making me realise that I'm depressed or I just want to be like them. I know I have anxiety & it's getting really bad lately, it's gotten to the point where if I drive at night, when I get home I go back outside like 5 times or more throughout the night to make sure my car headlights are actually off & my car is locked even though I know it is. I've been having a lot of anger problems lately as well, I have a really short fuse, I couldn't figure out how to start a new thread on here & after only like 10 seconds I wanted to throw my phone & I was almost in tears. I've been emotional about everything & I've been having horrible reactions to things. Things that should make me sad do make me sad but I smile & laugh even though I don't want to, like there was a thing on the news about a lady dying & I was so saddened by it yet I was smiling & I know I shouldn't be. It's been happening for like 3 or 4 weeks now. I feel sad all the time & I stress over the smallest things, I am tired even when I sleep 9 or more hours a night, I'm so scared that my life is just going to crumble around me, I've been lying to someone for like a year & if they find out I could get in a lot of trouble & it stresses me out so much but I can't come clean because I don't want to get in trouble. I'm stressed because I have almost no money, I'm always thinking about what could happen if this happened or if something had gone differently, I fixate on things that happened like a year ago or a day ago & try to thing about how I could've changed it. I've been having these feelings before I watched the show & I don't know if it's depression or not. I don't know if I just want to be depressed because I want to be like a TV show character & because Depression is sadly somewhat glamourised by the media. I know this post may seem all over the place but I don't know how to get my feelings & what I need to say out without word vomit.

PetaRina How to know if you have mental illness or you're just going through a 'sad phase'?
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how do you know if you have anxiety or depression, or if you're just going through a 'sad period'? For a few years now i've been feeling isolated, and sad, and it's getting progressively worse all the time, and i'm kinda scared it'll get to a point w... View more

how do you know if you have anxiety or depression, or if you're just going through a 'sad period'? For a few years now i've been feeling isolated, and sad, and it's getting progressively worse all the time, and i'm kinda scared it'll get to a point where i'll just give up. I cry all the time, there's days where i can't get out of bed and just lay there for hours and hours and others where on a whim i decide to catch a train to somewhere random just to explore. i have all these textbook 'symptoms' that are typical of what you always hear are related to some sort of mental illness. However, I'm 18, failing university & I don't have any friends or family members other than my parents (who i'm not close to), so I don't have any one to talk to. Rationally, i know these are things that can make someone any person really sad or upset, so how do you know if you're sad because of something that's happened, or because of the situation you're in, or if you have an illness of some sort? For a while i thought i had social anxiety, because i'm outgoing for things like public speaking when i'm doing a speech, but had this debilitating fear talking on the phone, of conversations & small talk, i would try to plan what to say in my head then stutter it out and become flustered, but it seems like every second person these days has social anxiety, so how do you know if you're just one of those 'awkward people' or if there's actually something wrong? There's so many people now quick to diagnose themselves as having depression (cue. Tumblr) just for sometimes being sad, that i'm hesitant to think that there's actually something 'wrong' with me, but i'm not sure how i'm feeling is normal, so I don't know what to do.

Jimmy19 I don't know what to do any more, I feel lost
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This is mainly going to be a vent to anyone who will listen. I have been feeling really tired and just sad lately due to almost every aspect of my life. My family, my uni, my friends, everything. My family is, in my mind, the main problem. I live at ... View more

This is mainly going to be a vent to anyone who will listen. I have been feeling really tired and just sad lately due to almost every aspect of my life. My family, my uni, my friends, everything. My family is, in my mind, the main problem. I live at home with my mother and my older brother and I feel like they either think I am incredibly stupid or can't be trusted. They will say or do anything to stop me from doing pretty much anything social, (for example, I went to town for a friends birthday, and my brother, my mother and my gandmother constantly told me I will probably get mugged, my drink spiked, get into a fight and wont enjoy myself. this went on for 3 days non stop, every conversation. and on the occasion i decide to stay home, they complain that I dont go out. It doesn't make sense because every counsellor and all my friends I have told this to, tell me that my family is in the wrong. But its the fact that they all gang up on me that makes me think I am wrong. I understand that tragedies can cause repression, which I think this is. But they make me want to run away forever. As for my Uni, I hate it. I am studying first year product design and it is just too much. but i cannot find a job where I live. I have given out over 150 resumes and I haven't even gotten an interview. My Uni peers treat me like an Alien and I just want to quit, but i have nothing else to go to. As for my friends, My best friend Brad is the only person on this planet I can tell anything to, but sometimes I feel like I put to much pressure on him with my problems. I always feel second best out of my friends and I just hate it all. I feel like I cant tell anyone how I feel because I am being over dramatic. I am starting to get extremely angry at little things, i never express it but in my mind I just feel like exploding. I have tried counselling and have spoken to my GP a few times about this, but nothing helps. the tablets make me feel tired and sluggish which I cant be for Uni. there just feels like no escape. And I feel so alone, I only have 1 friend that takes me seriously and I dont want to keep putting pressure on him. If anyone has the time to offer their thoughts I would be grateful, I don't know what to do any more. I just think I need someone to guide me for a while. Thanks

Bearylewis123 Feeling lonely
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I feel very lonely. At the moment, it is school holidays and I am just spending most of my time at home alone while my parents work. I have barely any friends (like 2), and the ones I do have either don't go to my school or their parents are so stric... View more

I feel very lonely. At the moment, it is school holidays and I am just spending most of my time at home alone while my parents work. I have barely any friends (like 2), and the ones I do have either don't go to my school or their parents are so strict I can barely see them. I feel really sad because I look on social media and everyone is out with friends having fun while I have no one to do anything with. This year was hard for me as my old best friend left me and I haven't made many new friends. I've been friendly, approachable,vans kind and have tried so hard to make friends yet no one seems to care about me as they all have their own little groups. I feel awkward and like I'm the odd one out. I feel like I am wasting my childhood and that I am going to regret not doing much or having fun now when I'm older but I don't see any way out of this situation because I don't have anyone to have fun or go out with. My mum is supportive but she always tells me how she had so many friends at school and it makes me depressed I'm not like that. Any suggestions?

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