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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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Erinya Feeling like I need to let it out.
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Hello everyone Lets just keep this short. I feel as if I have to start talking or I will explode. I feel like there is nothing I like about myself whether it be my physical appearance or how I lead my life. I refuse to open up to anyone. Due to this ... View more

Hello everyone Lets just keep this short. I feel as if I have to start talking or I will explode. I feel like there is nothing I like about myself whether it be my physical appearance or how I lead my life. I refuse to open up to anyone. Due to this I have very few friends. I can't get a job. Every time I go out I feel as if everyone is judging me. I'm always so angry. Every time something goes wrong I blame myself regardless if I'm at fault or not and I'm always worrying about things. Kind regards.

flower_girl1 To tell? Or not to tell?
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Hi All, if you have been following my thread you know that I have been having some trouble with anxiety over the last few months. I have recently been put on ADs and I feel like they are starting to work now. Mi haven't told anyone in my life yet jus... View more

Hi All, if you have been following my thread you know that I have been having some trouble with anxiety over the last few months. I have recently been put on ADs and I feel like they are starting to work now. Mi haven't told anyone in my life yet just my doctor and I am trying to decide who I should tell if I should at all. It's been good to have this place as a kind of journal and I can't decide if it's worth telling one person or a few. 1. First I could talk to my head teacher. I am aprehensive though because a lot of students go to her and spin a story about not coping to get extensions and I know it's BS. So I feel kinda bad like I'm joining this group. Frankly she might not be as to give me extensions this late in the year anyway. 2. My best friend is in science and works with pharmaceuticals so she would probs be very understanding. But I usually have heaps of fun with her I don't want to ruin the time we have together. 3. Cousin, I have a cousin who is studying to work in mental health. We are very close but she has always treated me like a little sister she wants to give advice to and I dont k ow that I really want that from her. 4. Brother, I am fairly sure he went through something like this in his Hsc though I dont know exactly what. We are not close though so it might just be an awkward conversation. i don't want to tell my parents as they will worry far to much and a part of me feels like dealing with this on my own makes me a strong adult. If I talk to ppl about it are they all going to start babying me and checking in on me? How many ppl do you normally have in your lives that you share this with? flower_girl

Sosonakias I feel like a social Einzelgänger
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Hello First off, thank you for reading this, I hope you can learn something from it. Basically everyone around me says that I am a very social person, and it doesn't feel like they're saying it just to be polite. Truth is, I almost always can see how... View more

Hello First off, thank you for reading this, I hope you can learn something from it. Basically everyone around me says that I am a very social person, and it doesn't feel like they're saying it just to be polite. Truth is, I almost always can see how someone is feeling and can almost always adjust my behaviour to other persons. I believe I am liked by many, but lately I have been feeling more and more lonely. I love being alone and not talk to people and that makes me sad with myself because it is important to help others and I should feel lucky that people like me. I feel like this about many things. I consider myself lucky with my looks and mind but sometimes i just feel like sleeping a lot and not doing anything at all, which makes me sad because it feels like im wasting the luck that someone else could have had. I' m doing about the hardest education anyone of my age can do, and i used to love to learn but now I feel like my school is trying to make me learn too much and i dont feel like learning that much anymore, which, again, makes me feel like i'm wasting myself, but lately learning too much does too. I love gaming, which often angers my parents. I often feel like I shouldnt complain about anything really because at least im alive and get to wash myself and eat daily. I realize many things and it often makes me feel guilty or less worthy, and i realize this as well. Just knowing and realizing so much makes me lose track of what im doing and feeling and sometimes i feel like im not feeling anything at all. i want to take a break from school. It is too much to handle, my thoughts and desires and needs and other peoples needs and homework and i just want to do what i wantbut i dont even have enough money for anything because i dont have a job because i can't even cope as it is now and i feel trapped while feeling lucky that ive been born with all my body parts and good brains and friends but my mind is just going too fast right now. Ive been diagnosed with ADD btw like this post, my mind usually is not very organized. Sorry hope you learned, reply to whichever part you want love, Sosonakias

Liam007 I shouldn't be worrying but I am
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Hi all, sorry to write a big story. But something happened recently and I have to get it off my chest So I got my end of Year 11 school reports yesterday, it was something I was fearful that I was going to get awful scores and comments. Because I'm f... View more

Hi all, sorry to write a big story. But something happened recently and I have to get it off my chest So I got my end of Year 11 school reports yesterday, it was something I was fearful that I was going to get awful scores and comments. Because I'm fearful of being laughed at or rejected when I participate in class, I just sat there quietly and said nothing. The end of the lesson would come and I would be standing at the door shaking and consistently checking the clock on my insulin pump preparing to power walk out of there. So I was worried that my report would be poor, I can't build the confidence to tell any teachers at my school that I'm having problems with anxiety, sadness and just feeling rubbish I should tell them but I can't get the confidence to do so. The only time I even came close was when my Visual Arts teacher noticed I looked worried for no reason, I told him but that was as far as I went. Back to the report, it was okay. I'm basically a middle ground student. Since my last report my rank in the class has either: Not changed at all or gone up (in good way) one or two places. This should be a sign to me that I'm not doing that bad and that I'm okay...but I feel like I did far worse. I got good comments on class participation. If feel like I barely did that. Another teacher said that I could thrive in the creative arts area, an area which I'm seriously worried I should give up...feeling the way I am, I think it's a bad idea to follow it. I used to love it..but I don't know what happened. I don't want to quit but I feel like it's a bad idea I just can't stop worrying about it...I shouldn't be worried. I didn't get comments like "behaves inappropriately" or anything. But I still feel like I messed up. I'm constantly worried that I look: Rude and disrepectful Dis-honest Unsympathetic Lazy I can't tell if I'm just nervous for Year 12 or just that I feel like good comments about me are exaggerated. School reports are tricky for me. I feel like I messed up but others view me differently and it confuses me to no end I worry about my personality, attitude and appearance all the time.

GloomyGirl Does anyone feel the same I do?
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Sometimes I feel like I'm trapped in my own body. Like my brain controls me. I feel like my own thoughts are attacking me. I feel like a volcano waiting to erupt. Sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy and everything is just a blur. Sometimes I get he... View more

Sometimes I feel like I'm trapped in my own body. Like my brain controls me. I feel like my own thoughts are attacking me. I feel like a volcano waiting to erupt. Sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy and everything is just a blur. Sometimes I get headaches because of how much I think. I hate everything about myself and I think everything is my fault. I'm the one who always gets replaced and I'm never good enough. I feel empty all the time. I've been searching for someone who has the same story I do. Someone who doesn't know why their depressed. Someone who thinks their overreacting and that they shouldn't be feeling this way. But it seems like I'm the only one. The only clueless one. I don’t know what to do because I honestly can’t even control myself anymore. Am I the only one who feels this way?

ALL My Story
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i really need to share this. no one knows everything yet. So the first memories I have of anxiety are from about 8 years ago. The very first thought I had was on a windy night close to the beach I thought there would be a tsunami that would kill me w... View more

i really need to share this. no one knows everything yet. So the first memories I have of anxiety are from about 8 years ago. The very first thought I had was on a windy night close to the beach I thought there would be a tsunami that would kill me while I was asleep. Safe to say I didn’t sleep that night. From there things only got worse and I started to be worried about everything, all the time. I would feel the worries crammed in my head and they were things I should be worried about. I got a fear of eating in public, started to do ‘rituals’ that were OCD like where I believed if I didn’t do them something bad would happen. I would stay up all night until I got it right ( this is still going on). It was horrible. I eventually went to see the school counsellor and things started to look up. I was using occasions like lent to force myself to give up OCD habits. But as one went another came. I got to a stage where I was feeling anxious, but like I could cope. But that went downhill really quick I got headaches, I couldn’t eat, felt sick all the time. The anxiety had manifested into physical symptoms and depression had come as well. Everything was an effort. I think this was the first time my mum really took notice and after a year of putting of seeing a psychologist she let me go. But now, while the worries aren’t crammed in my head anxiety has me wired all the time. I can’t relax and I am being pushed aside. My concerns are always ‘just anxiety’ and everything I have an opinion on is wrong. Apparently it’s all my fault. My depression ( and i know its a different forum) was openly denied to my doctor by my mum and she told me ‘its not like you are sick and you need treatment’. She doesn’t get it, despite what I have given her and told her. She won’t research on her own either. Im starting to feel alone and the one place I should feel comfortable, home, is the place where I feel the least comfortable.i dont want to try anymore and im starting to talk and yell at myself. at the same time i feel better because its not just in my head,l i dont think i have ever been worse? My relationship with my family is starting to go rigid.everything is just driving me nuts! HELP! Has anyone had a similar experience? I just really needed to tell someone the whole story. Thankyou for reading

megsii "Its finally time to talk"
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Hi, I'm still only a teenager, currently receiving help for my anxiety & depression. I absolutely hate talking about personal things, or talking in general, I feel violated when I do. My Psychiatrist and Mother have suggested going on this site, beyo... View more

Hi, I'm still only a teenager, currently receiving help for my anxiety & depression. I absolutely hate talking about personal things, or talking in general, I feel violated when I do. My Psychiatrist and Mother have suggested going on this site, beyondblue and signing up. Except i'm not use to talking to others with similar problems, I really do want to get help, I feel like an alien and abnormal with these mental "issues", I feel like I belongs in a mental institution. I honestly don't know how to start, except for asking if anyone else is in the same boat as me? I'm struggling to just press the "post" button because I hate sympathy and attention, I prefer being in the shadows if that makes any sense haha? I guess deep down there is a quite lingering voice telling me to talk to someone? Sincerely, megsii.

Ldog Anyone wanna chat? Forget about our problems for a little
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Hiya! I'm new to BB and this is my first post! My name is Lauren I've been going through pretty bad anxiety at the monent, but I want to put that aside for now and meet some new people. A little about myself: I live in SE QLD I'm shy, but like meetin... View more

Hiya! I'm new to BB and this is my first post! My name is Lauren I've been going through pretty bad anxiety at the monent, but I want to put that aside for now and meet some new people. A little about myself: I live in SE QLD I'm shy, but like meeting new people! I love listening to music, stuff on Triple J I'm a gamer I'm interested in psychology/philosophy I'm eager to meet some new people Thanks for reading (I don't know how to turn off double spacing, sorry haha)

Jade12 Struggling
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I am finding it really hard to cope right now I feel like I don't even exist to anyone.

I am finding it really hard to cope right now I feel like I don't even exist to anyone.

dreh I don't know if I have depression
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Hi there, I came on here for some guidance, as I don't know if I have depression or not. I took the checklist on this website and it told me I do, but I'm not sure if I do or just was making more exaggerated answer so it would tell me I do and I woul... View more

Hi there, I came on here for some guidance, as I don't know if I have depression or not. I took the checklist on this website and it told me I do, but I'm not sure if I do or just was making more exaggerated answer so it would tell me I do and I would know what it going on. I'm in year 12 at the moment, and the last term I have just been really down and out and not motivated to do anything, but I didn't think of depression at first as I thought maybe it was just because I knew I was so close to finishing that I was turning my attentions to other things and it was harder to focus on my school work. I first noticed something was up last holidays, when I just began getting upset for no reason. Nearly every night for the past term I have gotten upset to the point of tears, and it has worsened the past few weeks that I want to cut just to release some of the pain. I used to play music in order to distract myself from this but lately I don't even feel like practicing any more. My boyfriend is the only thing or person that is making me happy at the moment, and I am a Christian but I am even struggling to talk to God, because my thoughts and my actions have become so unChristianlike I feel guilty in talking to him. I have always been a good student at school, but lately I have been getting so distracted, and unable to focus on anything that I have found myself pulling all nighters just to complete an assignment, and I wake up on a weekend knowing that there are things I should be doing, but just rolling over and going back to sleep, even if I am awake and don't feel like sleeping anymore. I have been getting into lots of arguments with my mum over this, which hurts because we have always had a really close relationship, and whenever she asks I just tell her that I am okay and I am just stressed. But it's gotten to the point where I don't feel like I can talk to her anymore, and lately I have also started pushing my boyfriend away. My thoughts generally consist of me never being good enough, that everything I do is wrong. Because I am year 12 they have also consisted of it not being worth going to uni, because everyone else is brighter and smarter than I am, and since it's a competitive world I just shouldn't bother. Even as I am writing this I don't know why I am because there are other people who need taking care of who actually have depression. But I'll keep it here because that seems like a depressing thought to me. Please help, I'm really lost.

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