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Counseling for Depression?
Would you recommend counseling for depression? This is my second consecutive year struggling with depression. I am 16. It started when my two best friends moved before high school started. I soon became friends with a boy I met and we later became best friends in around August. However in March or April, he stopped talking to me. And although we were “best friends” he would always leave me out of things in the last few months of our friendship and I felt replaced. Well this year I am at a new school and I do not fit in with any one. I still haven’t made friends and I am so lonely and really, really depressed. Should I get counseling? I want to, but I don’t want to cause too much trouble for my parents.. They are really stressed out right now and my mom has to have a surgery soon, so I don’t want to cause another trouble to their lives..
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Tags: Counseling, depression
First things first
Have you tried to join any school or after school club.
Do you go to any school sports games.
Is the only platonic help I can give considering our circumstances Yahoo Answers and all.
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you do need some counseling, youre not bothering your parents..you’re their child. they made a silent promise the day they found out that you were comin into this world that they’d protect, help, and love you uncondtionally.
so ask them….i went to a new high school last school year…really screwed me up, i was going through some severe manic episodes, which cost me my friends from my old high school, a few credits, and a year of my life taken away.
don’t let yourself sink in and you need to try to make friends.
definitely get some counseling. ask your parents for help…please do not wait another minute.
I had counselling for depression and self-harm, and it was brilliant. I really felt so much better just knowing that I could say everything that was on my mind without having to worry about upsetting the person I was talking to. She helped me to develop ways of coping, and to challenge my thoughts on situations. I would highly recommend talking therapy.
Your parents would much rather you had counselling to deal with your problems now, than let them grow until they become unmanageable. The longer you are depressed as a teenager, the harder it gets to manage things later on, because you mislearn coping strategies. I was depressed from the age of 11-20, and have really struggled with things like talking to new people, making eye-contact, not being suspicious of everyone etc. I finally sought help at the age of 19, but wish I’d done so earlier before thinsg got so bad. It’s not easy, but you can overcome it.
Get counselling now. The earlier the better.
You are depressed for good reasons. This is called exogenous or situational depression. You are not a depressive. then. It is important for you to know the cause. A psychiatrist will Rx drugs even for that exogenous depression. In practice, they don’t make the distinction.This tends to create a lifelong patient who worsens with time.
Endogenous depression originateds in your body. A hypothyroid can do it. Other real biological problems can do it. It is essential to have your PCP and not a psychiatrist do a workup to find biological causes. You don’t want to start a life of dulling psyche drugs when there is another cause.
I remember the story of a woman who was quickly committed. Her psychiatrist made the usual laundry list of “mental illnesses”. She had no exam to find the cause. Ten years later a crisis caused a neurologist to examine her. She had had a brain tumor. It had grown over the years.
Psychiatrists don’t look for causes. They start drugs in minutes. If you have to use these, look these up for yourself. Many times psychiatrists prescribe combinations that interact. Yes, a pharmacist should catch this but rarely does.
Trust your intuition. A psychologist or counselor can help you to manage a bad situation. Be careful. If there ever is a conflict, the “professional” will be believed and not you.
No, I am not a Scientologist.
I know how you feel. When I was in school, I was the same way. No friends, but the friends I did have were a lot younger than myself and they only wanted to hang out at school and not on the weekends and they never called. My friend, I would get counseling or talk to someone. You are number 1. Dont ever forget it. Talk to your Aunt or some one you feel a little connected with in the family. Even talk to your mom, let her know you dont want her to be stressed out about it, that you would feel better talking to a counselor. Just dont give up. I know you are a good person and you will make a good friend to some one and they will see it. Keep your Head Up HIGH.
You should seek for a counsellor.
However, as I do not know your intensity of depression, I would recommend you go through the pathway of seeing a General Practitioner or Family physician who will refer you to a psychiatrist. Ask for one that specialises in Child and teenage psychiatry.
Do not be skeptical of psychiatrist. Seeing one does not mean you have a psychotic or nonreversal mental disorder.
The psychiatrist will be able to assess you to see if you have any impulse control issues or other issues that is linked up with depression. This specialist will then arrange for a therapist, who is known as a counsellor, or psychologist, to work on the issues that cause the depression.
Many think that you yourself will know the cause. It is not true. There are some things which you may not have recognised as being the major cause of your distress.
Allow the psyche specialists to help you ok?
I think everyone needs a little counseling in their lives. Struggling with depression is very hard and if you don’t treat this disorder now it will catch up with you later in life. The combination of family members and mental illness doesn’t mix well. The most important thing is that you get the help you need. Reach out to a school counselor and tell them your concerns.