This clip from Day For Night:Recognizing Teenage Depression features teens and experts talking about the symptoms of depression. DFN:RTD is an in-depth look at the signs, symptoms, and treatment of teenage depression. The film features the true stories of teenagers and their struggles with clinical depression and bipolar disorder as well as interviews with their friends and families and mental health professionals.
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My clincal depression has gotten worse over the years. I either sometimes sleep too much or too little. I can’t control my eating habits. I feel when I wake up in the morning I feel like my bed is a comfort zone.I feel distance towards people. I can’t concetrate or forget things. I have low energy levels. I had five panic attacks in one week. Next month hopefully if everything goes well I’ll start thearpy.
i wanna not be around anymore but suicide scares the shit out of me
Fizzy, is there anyone you can talk to?
That’s a lot to deal with as a kid. 🙁 i’m glad you’re pretty much doing alright!
you can talk to me. i feel the same. it helps me cuz the other person knows how you feel and doesn’t call you a freak and shit like that. send me a message if you wanna talk or anything.
great. I have every single symptom and more :(. Now I truly have become a mess and hit rock bottom ;/
I’m scared. I was just diagnosed with depression a couple wks ago after having a serious onslaught of symptoms. I was tired but couldn’t sleep. I barely ate. I lost ten PBS in less than a week. I didn’t want to move. I had been in a serious depression last year but thought it was just stress. I’m sinking back into one again, and am even worse. My mother doesn’t know it’s happening.
I can’t trust anyone. My best friend since kindergarten shunned me when I told her, and none of my friends understand. I cry myself to sleep and sometimes can’t even breathe. I feel I have to physically hold myself together. No one knows this is happening. I’m not cutting or maiming – I don’t want to hurt. I just want to be numb. To sleep and never wake up. At the same time I’m afraid to do anything. This is so scary
yh im depressed :L but suicide scares me alot i dont know whether its gonna afect me :S
Acid,
YOU ARE NOT ALONE. If you’re watching and feeling like these kids, remember that there is help. Things got better for them after they reached out. Things can be better for you too.
I am so sorry. 🙁 Can you talk to her? Or someone else?
Sponge,
Read these comments and know you’re not alone.Take a chance and talk to someone. If not your parents then maybe a friend? It can get better, if you help it along.
this is the first time admitting to anyone that this is how i feel inside everyday. and its easier to admit because its the internet. but im afraid of telling anyone close because i dont want to show weakness. i think about suicide alot, and when i have the chance to saying something about i involuntarily crack a joke and turn the conversation. i really dont know why im telling all this is just kinda feels good to say it in some form.
why cant parents understand that?
my mom truly failed as a parent!
I watched this video in Group Therapy. Really helpful.
In the 6th grade i was a huge social bug,but for some reason my self esteem hit rock bottom. the next year, i stopped talking to people, i stopped participating in things that were fun, i locked everything that i felt about myself inside and didnt tell a single person….i still havent
i started my first year of highschool this year, things are getting worse for me….
@msrandm001 Is there anyone you can talk to about this, when you’re ready? Reaching out is worth it. Things CAN be better.
it feels that im alone in this world and nobody cares… ive attemted suicide twice now and im scared i want my life to end but i also want them to get better…. im too to sure that anything will get better tho :`(
@hateallofyou1
Mine did too trust me , she was not helping at all. She was like : Your friend must be sick of you , you never smile , if i were your friend i’ld hate to be with someone so negative , i’m sick of seeing you so pessimist that’s just annoying. When in the hell are you gonna change ? I want you to change .
it was one year ago , but i still remember how hard i wanted to punch her in the face when she said that.
Wtf i just wrote a long ass comment about myself and it didnt even post wtf is that
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im writing because i might be depressed. i get pissed all the time about my dumass school, about something that happens or what someone says and resultably become quite.in school im mostly quite because of the uniforn, the kids there, and about the dum shit that i have to learn and will never use in my life. Im turning 16 in 3 days and i dont believe in god because he/she wouldnt let people like me constantly feel like shit about everything.
I also come to reliZe that i i have no life and that i dont look up to anything or have goals in my life. I feel like i dont have a purpose and sometimes think of suicide. I feel like if i died i would be in a better place. Im also a twin and i often feel that my twin lives a some what normal life then me. Im not the talkative type and i feel like im developing speech problems and cant have a normal conversation…i often feel like the world is against me and i have low self esteem
I really hope some one can help thx : /
life is a bitch god isnt real and violence rules the world
:/