Question by Nicole: How do I bring up depression to my parents?
I don’t feel like going into detail, but bottom line is I’m 16 and I’ve kind of been struggling with feelings of depression for awhile.
My 26 year old brother was recently prescribed something for a mental disorder, but he won’t tell us what it is. He’s embarrassed. So maybe something runs in my family?

I’m also positive I had anxiety and OCD as a child if it matters, & my parents were well aware of this.
It was bad.
Everything I did I thought would result in me thinking I was going to die. Literally. This lasted from about 8 years old – 11 My mom said she thought it would pass and it was just a phase.
I guess she was right.. I’m obviously more rational now but I still feel anxious sometimes. I think everyone does.
As for the OCD, yeah that definitely passed. that one’s self explanatory.

Anyways, I just want to know how I could bring up possible depression or just wanting to see a psychologist to my parents. It’s pretty embarrassing to talk about things like that to my them. We’re not the type to share feelings..
We’re close and have a pretty good relationship. But it’s one of those relationships that exclude talking about things like boys, drama, emotional stuff. So something like seeing a psychologist would definitely be weird to talk about, not because it’s that weird to see one, but because I’d have to explain myself for sure.

Also, maybe a little over a year ago my mom threatened to take me to see a psychiatrist.(psychologist/psychologist sorry I don’t know the difference!)

She would get angry and yell at me for being “miserable all the time”
I told her I didn’t want to and that I was fine.
Yelling at me for my excessive crankiness was pretty frequent back then, but it died down.
Now it’s not yelling, it’s “What’s the matter with you? You look like you hate the world”
I deny it every time and say I’m tired or something. When really I’m tired of feeling like this.

Other days I’m perfectly fine. But it always seems to come back.

I’m kind of rambling..thank you so much if you actually read all this.
So how do I bring up depression/getting help? I really don’t want to ask and never see myself opening up. Ever.

Thanks

Best answer:

Answer by Matt
First suggestion would be if your brother is going through something similar which he is then talk to him and get him to help you talk to your parents. That would be an easy way to do it in my opinion.
Another way would be to just be honest about it which shouldn’t be embarrassing I felt depressed in my high school years I had anxiety which I now have a prescription for but I handled it by telling my mom I wanted to go get some medication to deal with it. Find a cool psychiatrist who will speak your language and find the root of the problem. Good luck, you can do it more people go through this than you know.

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