I'm with you - I HATE when people, especially parents and peers, chalk up our (very real) depression to "normal teenage angst". Yeah, that's what it is all right. So that means teens that sleep constantly, hate themselves, and sometimes want to hurt themselves are experiencing something totally normal. Because, of course, they could never really feel that way......

Hang in there...so many of us are going through the same thing. I'm 17 and I have dysthymia too.