HI Hayley and welcome to the BB forums and community 🙂 Like yourself, most users (including myself) are peers and not professionals. We are hear to support each other and offer advice.
Sounds like you have a few things going on. With your depression, your living situation and your money struggles. Sounds like all these are probably exassibating your depression. It is good you are still trying to look for work and you are trying to put yourself out there. I know where you are coming from. I myself am looking for another job and am not having luck at the moment. It can be frustrating and for me it can make my depression and anxiety worse. But I just remind myself that, that job was not meant to be and another one will be the one.
Can I ask if you have discussed your moods and feelings to a dr or psychologist? If not I suggest you do. They can come up with a plan to help manage your moods and put you in the right direction. I went to my gp and got a mental health plan made up and I get 6-10 psychology sessions (can be free but let your gp know so they refer to one that bulk bills). I am 25 but when I was diagnosed with GAD at 22 I didn't have a gp or the confidence to go talk to a dr at my local clinic. I decided to go down the youth mental health path. You can look up your own local youth mental health service or the national one called headspace. I found it was great because I felt more comfortable talking openly about my problems with a place that mainly deals with mental illness. When I went to headspace it was all bulked billed so I didn't have to worry about the cost. Now I know this may not be the avenue you want to take but thought I should put it out there. You can always go on eheadspace which is all online and via the phone. I know it maybe hard to open yourself up and get help but trust me it is harder to go on without help. I wish I had done it when I first had serious issues when I just left high school. Then I wouldn't have struggled as much.
keep us updated. And hopefully I'll see you around on the forums
MP
