Do you have a friend that you have told about these struggles, or that you feel could be supportive of you if you did tell them? Someone your parents like, haha - I know that can be a problem for some.

I was in the same situation as you in that I begged my parents to take me to a therapist, a psych, anything about my mental health problems, and they kept blaming it on being a teenager and, perhaps one of the most insulting was: "Is it just that time of the month...?" Oo, still makes me seethe. They were just not open to mental health treatment unless someone had gone through obvious trauma like a death in the family or PTSD from war. It was very frustrating and discouraging.

It wasn't until I was 19 - or was it 20? - that I was able to fully tell my parents what had been and was going on with me for 7 to 8 years. The reason I ask if you have a friend you can talk to about things is because it took the intervention of my boyfriend to tell my parents alongside me, and explain as a third party what was going on and the benefits of mental health treatment, etc...

Perhaps, even, if you have got a medical practitioner that you've had for a while, they can describe the issues to your parents - sometimes it takes a "professional," whoever it may be, for people to listen, sad as it is.

Let us know how it goes. You deserve to get treatment, to be healthy, whole - don't let anyone make you feel otherwise.