troubles with family and school life

[yikes101]

there been troubles within my family between my older brother and my mum lately . hes just recently become a dad but he's addicted to smoking week and stuff so my mum is pretty accepting with the fact that he smokes but they fight almost every time he comes over . from all this it causes him to get anger issues along my mum too . they then get angry at me which gets me upset . ive been In a very emotional stage lately being very stressed going through high school as well . its caused me to become very stressed and a bit depressed and its caused me to have different thoughts and self harm . I don't know what to do anymore ?

[james1]

Hi yikes,

I'm so sorry to hear about what's happening at home. That must be really hard being stressed at high school as well as back at home. It sounds pretty irresponsible of your brother and mother to let their stuff affect you. It should be just between them, and not involve you at all.

Do you have any friends at school who know what is happening? It can be really helpful just to talk to people sometimes.

While we're on the subject of talking to others, your school will probably have an anonymous counsellor. Do you know who that is and if you can go to them one lunch time or something?

James

[startingnew]

hello and welcome to Beyond Blue

sounds like a tricky situation there..

im concerned that your haning sh thoughts, can you talk to someone about this? a school counsellor? a freind? another family memeber?

alternatively when these urges come along there are support helplines as well such as beyonf blue on 1300224636 and they also have a webchat

headspace 1800 650 890 they also ahve a webchat as well

kidshelpline 1800 55 1800 and also have a a webcaht as well (they deal with people up to 25yrs old so dont worry about the name)