I am a 16 year old female. I'm currently a junior in high school. Since I was 12 I've always went through periods of depesion. The worse was during the fall of my sophmore year. I did drugs to suppress the bad feelings. I even got to the point of breaking down crying to my mom telling her how I felt. I told her how I just felt like I couldn't be happy. (Crying is something you are just not supposed to do in this family in front of people so it was a big step for me.) Well, she took it the wrong way and thought it was all her fault but I explained that I didn't know what made me feel that way. Then she said she'd try to get me help. She never did. My depression lifted but came again another time in the spring. I toldher and she thinks I'm just using that as an excuse to justify bad things I've done. Honestly I don't. I know doing drugs and drinking was bad and I did it all on my own but she doesn't get it.

For awhile it has went away but I feel it coming back again. I feel like my depression will never leave me and it will never get better because my mom doesn't want to see it. I just don't know what to do anymore.

Sorry this is so long......

Maybe its just your self esteem. Is it low, or high? You should always be thinking positive about you and the things around you. This can help you become happier. I remember that I felt like no one cared, I had no friends etc.. but I was just thinking wrongfully about myself. Don't try to think about what it would be like, but what it is like. Sorry if I rambled on.

You might not want to hear this but your depression will probably not get better but worse in time. My parents and "friends" are the same way, they think I just say it because I want an excuse to miss school. It has only gotten worse for me. Every day I can feel it getting worse and worse, right now I don't work or attend school, I literally just lay in bed most of the day crying or just do mindless nonsense on the computer like just stare at random sites and listen to music. I suggest you just go talk to your school counsler about it.

You might not want to hear this but your depression will probably not get better but worse in time. My parents and "friends" are the same way, they think I just say it because I want an excuse to miss school. It has only gotten worse for me. Every day I can feel it getting worse and worse, right now I don't work or attend school, I literally just lay in bed most of the day crying or just do mindless nonsense on the computer like just stare at random sites and listen to music. I suggest you just go talk to your school counsler about it.


That's exactly how I get sometimes. There's times I just don't feel up to getting out of bed. But it goes away for periods of times and my mom keeps telling me I'm fine. She says that I'm just going through typical teenage girl stuff. I work myself up to telling somebody but the only one that really listens is my friend Ticia but that's all she can really do is listen.....

I know how it feels to be confussed about the way you r feeling im 14 and I have been suffering from depression for 3 years and well at first I didn’t know what was happening either then it went the way you talked about for 2 yr till turned I told no one about the way I felt I started to self cut and later attempted suicide well my g-ma saw that there was a differece in me and so did the school that called social services well the social services said I had to go to councling and I did but I we scared at first but after a year and half I have to say that I feel the best I have for while and it really helps that I can talk to someone about my problems. So if your mom cant help you, you can talk to you school councler or social service person who you city police to find out about the councling in your resourese. Well that’s my advbice and I hope that it helps you.
shanice