i have been feeling down and not my self for awhile now but today I had a melt down and burst into tears in the middle of a science lesson and I don't know why. I have had lots of teachers go to my head of year and say how worried they are and how I've changed. I have thought about going to a teacher but then I'm worried about what they will think of me or say. I need some ideas on what I should do?
Have you had any major changes in your life recently? Writing that you have thought about talking to a teacher, does this mean it is something you don't wish or can't talk to your parents about?
Hello Georgia. Is there any specific you have been feeling down about recently? You know hormones can cause these moods, and I am sure lots of girls your age feel the same at times.
Is there a school counsellor you can talk to. If there is anything worrying you, can you talk to a close relative? When we share how we feel we lift a burden, and we all need support. Everyone has down times. Clinical depression is a serious illness, and I am not sure that you are truly depressed as in the illness. Everyone gets "depressed" but it is not the same as depression, the illness.
Don't worry about what people think or say about you. Talk about how you feel to an adult.
Sweetie, if you find it difficult to talk, then you could write everything down. Do you have a favourite teacher? Is talking to your parents not an option? Do you have a close relationship with any of your friend's mums? Whoever you talk to, it is important to talk to someone. Please talk to someone. Don't make the mistake that I made and bottle it all up until I was so messed up I had a breakdown. Big (((hugs))) x
Thanks I don't really get on with the teachers as I mess around and get told off a lot as it takes my mind off things, I don't know any of my mates mums as I don't like going out and meeting up with my mates. I don't know my dad and I don't want to talk to my mum about things as she shad a lot on and I'm scared she won't understand. x
well my grandad committed suicide last month and that was a shock but I have been not feeling good for along time before that happened. I only really talk to my mum because I don't really talk to my step dad anyway and my mum is always really busy and stressed and I'm worried she won't understand and just tell me to get on with it. I don't know what to do anymore I feel like I can't even talk to my friends.
Oh Georgia I feel you really do need to talk to someone about how you are feeling. You are grieving for your grandad so that must have a lot to do with your low mood. I really think your mum would understand if you talk to her. If you feel able, could you talk to a doctor about how you have been feeling? You cannot continue bearing this burden all by yourself.
Thanks Anne I have thought about going to the doctors but I would need to be driven there and then my mum would want to know y I was going to the doctors.
Georgia I am worried about you dear. I know you want us to give you some ideas on what to do, but if you wont talk to anyone, teachers or family, or doctor, I am not sure what else to suggest. If I was your mum I would like to know how you are. I am a gran and I would gladly talk to my granddaughter if she was worried. Is there nobody at all you can confide in? Is there a school counsellor. They will listen and not judge and everything you tell them is confidential. It may help.
I don't know there might be, but then I have to go and leave my lessons to see them and everyone would ask me where I was going And I wouldn't like that. There are people who are willing to talk to me it's just I can't pluck up the courage to go and talk to them instead I just say it doesn't matter.
Well if you feel like that, I do understand. I do hope you feel better soon, because there is nothing else I can suggest to help you. Keep writing to us here if it helps.