i am 16 how do i stop being depressed?

Understand why you are depressed? You are on the anger board. Are you angry too? Repressed anger will make you depressed.

I think sometimes depression is anger turned inwards. We have to deal with whats making us sad but sometimes especially at your age it is hormones. You also have alot of pressure at your age dealing with stuff at school, peer pressure and thats if you have the perfect life at home, which seldom happens.

If you are feeling depressed the best thing to do is talk to a parent ask to see your doctor, ask to see a cousnelor, you can even talk to your school counselor if you don't know how to approach your parents.

Talk about it, write about it, take walks, find ways to express what your feeling if its writing poems or songs, talking with someone. Find ways to get it out thats not harming yourself.

Just remember you will get thorugh it, there will be brighter days, I promise.

hugs

I think basically what depression is, (what helped me realize this too is the book "Healing Your Aloneness: Finding Love and Wholeness Through Your Inner Child," by Margaret Paul and Erika J. Chopich)is not giving yourself what you want and need. You're pushing everything inside and down, where the other part of you is screaming for it to be different. The biggest thing is that you have to be brave enough to face what is bothering you. Maybe some counselling will help you, although I would never take a pill for my problems. I agree with Sannah and yvette about the anger turned inwards. Good luck, you're young, take care of yourself now.