Why do teenagers all think they're depressed?
And why is teenage "depression" so apocalyptic? I'm fourteen, and really I can't stand teenagers. They're an irrational, melodramatic lot that mistake hormones for actual feelings. I know far too many kids that think they're depressed, and I KNOW that none of them actually are. I know what depression looks like, all too well. My father suffers from severe Seasonal Affective Disorder, and my mother is a counselor for the public Mental Health. Everyone on my fathers side of the family is prone to mental illness. I've been around Mental Health professionals all my life, and I know quite a bit about these things. It really annoys me that my friends have the nerve to think that because they had a bad day they're depressed, have they not heard of hormones? Well, they're always in love or depressed. It shocked me the other day on Y!A, I answered a question that a teen asked about thinking he himself was depressed. To me, the kid sounded very stressed and not like himself. So I merely suggested trying to eat healthily get lots of sun and just try and stay calm with all the stress going on. I then read the other answers, the majority of which were along the lines of this, "OMG! You need to see a doctor right away! You could totally be depressed, maybe you need medication!!!!" ... Honestly, this kid did not sound clinically depressed to me in the least, yet everyone was treating it as this huge thing that could completely destroy him. A stable human being is not that fragile. It baffles me the way the notion of depression is treated in this society, please tell me that some people still have reasoning skills.
My boyfriend left me, Im pregnant, and Really depressed! Help please?
My boyfriend and I we have been dating over a year now, i'm pregnant with his child. I'm 19 years old, as so is he. We tend to argue often, but I love him more then anything in this world! He left me because he said, he was tired of all the fighting and said he doesn't believe it will work out no more. This is definitly not the first time he's left me, its been several times actually. He's family doesn't like me excluding his father. I've gone over to his sisters house, thats where he's staying at currently, and she didn't even want to open the door, she just talked to me through the window, and was awefully rude. I can't call his mother, since she dislikes me also, so I called his father whom I love, and he was trying to comfort me, saying he was going to talk to him, and just to give him time. Last week on Friday, he dislocated my kneecap, while we we're arguing, He punched me on my knee and it popped out, and yet I still forgave him, and haven't told anyone about the situation. However, just today he said he's had it enough with the aruging, and decided to walk out on me. I was crying but he said this to me "I'm sorrry, I just feel like I can't do this anymore, or something bad will happen" ..and I asked him "what would happen?" and he said to me "One of us will kill each other, I already injured your knee." I was in total shock to that, It broke my heart, but even after it all I still want him back, I once believed we'd last forever. I'm really depressed, and I can't stop crying, Any advice ? I want to be strong for my baby, but its hard. I just want to be strong, but it seems impossible! :( Thanks to all in advance, May God Bless you!
I feel so sad/depressed.. 17 weeks pregnant.. depressed?
I know exactly how you feel. I'm 21 and pregnant, and Baby Daddy and I weren't together that long before it happened, so the relationship didn't exactly have a strong foundation before we both had to grow up real fast and start acting like parents. I'm making minimum wage, trying to get bills paid so I don't get evicted, also trying to finish 6 classes in school this semester so I can get a "real" job once baby is born. It's funny that people say you're not supposed to be stressed because it can cause problems for you and baby, but this is probably one of the most stressful times of your life. And they definitely don't tell you how to handle it all in those pregnancy handbooks. I'm having problems dealing with the baby's father also. Men just don't seem to GET it. They have no idea how we feel while going through all this. They say that women become mothers when they know they're pregnant, but men don't feel like fathers until they see the baby. I REALLY hope it doesn't take my guy the next 4 months or so to wake up and start acting like a dad. They just don't get how vulnerable and scared we're feeling. All they're worried about is having their "guy" time and getting all their partying in while they can. I wish I knew how to knock some sense into them. What gets me through it all is thinking about the big picture. It sure sucks now a lot of the time, but it will all be worth it when we have our little babies in our arms, when we see them smile for the first time, and feel the love that we'll have for them. I'm thinking of setting up some kind of online support group for moms to be like us, since most of the websites and advice I come across is for well supported, happily married women who had this all planned out. Feel free to keep in contact with me whenever you need to vent because I totally get everything that you're feeling right now. And I'll send you an invite to join my support group when I figure out how to get it up and running. Hope you feel better! Update: I started a Yahoo! Group. http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/theyoungmomssupportgroup/ Please join and spread the word!
Pregnant & depressed. Feeling like a failure?
21 one 2 yrold girl & 5 months pregnant with my son. I live with my parents, I'm a student but probably won't get to go. I feel like I have nothing & I'm letting my fam down. My boyfriend is making me feel bad for being pregnant I'm just feeling like rock bottom is near. I don't drive, no career, no job but I have two kids. I feel like no one will ever want me only to use me, even my own boyfriend he says nice things but hasn't moved forward with our relationship & now me having this baby is causing us to grow apart. I haven't seen him in almost a month although his car is down he still use to find a way to me. I'm so alone in this pregnancy again. Anyone else felt like this? How did u get out of this slump? I'm damn near depressed & have to fake it around my fam they don't even know im preg yet
Im pregnant and my boyfriend left me. im depressed and Alone. i feel like i will be alone forever.?
helloooo.. well I am 18. and im Pregnant. my boyfriend and I lived together when i got pregnant, and after we found out he started acting Funny...i moved out because he is a drunk and i didnt think the "party environment" was a very good place for a Pregnant girl, and for a newborn baby. I still love him. i moved in with my sister and he came and stayed with me sometimes and we still talked all the time. now all of a sudden he told me that he didnt want to talk to me anymore, and thats just weird because thats never happened with us before. hes not a good person and i know that. i just can't get over him. and now since im pregnant i feel really unattractive. i Feel like i will be alone forever. i am always sad. i can't feel happy. and he is already with other girls which makes it worse, because i know no one will want to be with a pregnant 18 year old. any advice? if your going to say get an abortion or put the baby up for adoption don't reply. anyone else ben through this?
My boyfriend hit me And Im depressed?
What would you like to do to make yourself happy? Would you be happy knowing that you're with a man that has "strong feelings" for you? If he feels that he only has strong feelings for you and made you feel like he didn't feel bad for physically harming you I don't think your relationship is healthy. I think you should look into possibly taking a break with him to see if he will pick up his act and realize you're worth spending his whole life with.