How Can I Help Myself?

[-headintheclouds-]

I feel depressed and sometimes have bad anxiety attacks.

My parents know this - I've told them and they've witnessed it - but they ignore it and refuse to get me help, probably thinking it's just 'a teenage phase'. I've never been good at talking to other about my feelings, and it took me over half a year to work up enough courage to tell my parents. I haven't got any really close friends that I feel confident to talk to about this, and I know I need help. I tried once to work up enough courage to tell somebody at my school, but I couldn't do it; I couldn't even knock on the door of 2-3 teachers, my year team leader or the school psychologist. It's really affecting my school marks, and my parents are getting annoyed about it. But I can't do anything about it. I really want to help myself, but I don't know who or where I can turn.

How do I get my parents to understand I really need help? And if that doesn't work, where can I go to get help for myself?

[Sparkles183]

Hi headintheclouds 

welcome to beyond blue. 

It sounds like u are going through a hard time, I am sorry to hear that your parents are not being very supportive. Maybe you could try talking to your parents again, and hopefully they can understand also I don't know if you know about the organisation headspace the specialise in youth mental health from the ages of 12 to 25 maybe you can look them up and hopefully they can help you out.

I can understand the anxiety u may feel when u first go and get help even knocking on the door of the school psych but please keep trying to reach out and try again to seek help from your school as hopefully it will be the first step in u getting the help you need and you will start to do better in school work. 

take care

sparkles..