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mellon_collie, Have you seeked counselling? Do you have someone that you speak with that might be able to help you sort out your feelings and fears? Perhaps opening up and laying on everything on the table, will help you sort through your stuff and get the appropriate help. There are people out there that want to help you. Stay close to our site and post as often as you need to. Angela __________________________________ The Depression Center Support Team
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dear mellon collie depression robs you of alot of things. it makes you feel guilt, scared, alone, useless and unable to do basic things. when i was your age i didnt know i had clinical depression. i used to arrange and rearrange the books on me shelves, i was a crummy student and i had to overcompensate the depression by being happy all the time. not until i was over thirty did i get help, and believe me help makes a tremendous difference. i know that i havent walked in your shoes, and even though i dont know you i know that you arent fat and ugly. honey, if you cant cope there is lots of help. talk to your doctor, a favourite aunt, relative, pastor, anybody. sometimes people dont know you're having a problem until you tell them. keep posting, we care about you.
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I've sorta reached the point where I don't know what to do all nicely marked off my my 17th birthday... I never before admitted i was depressed and when i stopped going to school when my dad died 3 years ago i used that as a smoke screen 'cos i didn't wanna deal with stuff. Now I'm back in education and I wanna do well but i just can't.. I have no motivation or anything.. and i know I'm lucky that they took me back .. but i still keep skiving. i hate people seeing me cos I'm so ugly and fat and I feel so evil on the inside, i know it is teenager stuff but it's all got amplified and too much to cope with. The truth which no one knows is that I obsses about things cos it's the way I keep control. Even when I was little , I was always werid, desperately shy and self loathing. My doctor cares but i can't talk to him 'cos some of the stuff i don't wanna let go of but I really just wanna be happy because I've reach a point where i can't cope. Once when I was quite bad I didn't leave my room for 3 months .. and i'm disgusted to say I didn't even look after myself.. my room was a tip and can't even remember showering regularly, i was a freak and disgusting at it. I force myself everday to go to school because i know the other choice is well I'm too petrified to think about. My mum is worried and has worked really hard to help me and even she get's fustrated, like my friends and my doctor i just fustrate people and I really don't want to so i can't tell them stuff which I have to hide inside. So right now I'm tethering on the edge of the rest of my life, and unless I do work this weekend I'm quitting school, which i know inside if that happens i'll have nothing to live for. I'm so scared alone and guilty cos it's all my fault.. I really want to be happy.

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