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Hi. I have alot that i could post but im just going to try and keep it not to long. I know i'm definitely depressed but i'm wondering if anyone has any ideas of what else i may have. I've thought i've had everything from ocd to antisocial personality disorder. Anyway, here's the basic story:
This is just the overview of where i am right now. I'm a 17 year old female. I have basically been very depressed for almost exactly 3 years now. But i have felt "not right" for much longer than this. I left school at the beginning of 2010 which was going to be my 11th year of school (get more into this later) and then went into the workforce. I held the job for six months. I have now been unemployed for 14 months. Anyway, here goes. Growing up i was a very good student, always the perfect angel at school, i always felt like i was hiding something though. Like i would act so differently at school than when i was at home, even as early as year 1. I was very very quiet, shy and passive at school. People often said to me "You never smile", " Why do you never talk?" and i have always kind of felt that life was kind of for every one else to experience and for me to just kind of observe. But, i always, to this day have been the kind of "stuff-up", "black sheep" at home. I always felt like i would be found out or something, like people would realise i'm being so extremely fake. Like, for instance, i had this teacher in year 3 and the teacher's daughter was in my class. I went over to their house for a sleepover one time and i got really mad and kind of blew up (which is not a rare occurence for me) at the girl and they were stunned that i was actually so different than i was at school. My mum and dad fought alot when i was young. These days, i thrive on fighting (i think). I can't really remember how i felt back then about it, i remember sometimes desperately trying to distract my little sister from it by reading to her and stuff. I sometimes think that i like it so much because for once i'm not the one mum and dad are angry at, they're angry at eachother during these times. They seperated in 2004, and my mum took me and my sister to live in my mum's hometown (only 40 minutes away from previous home). My dad came back to live with us again only a few months later though. I was 10 at this time. I remember when my mum told me and my sis that they were separating, she also said that we can each get a cat (to soften the blow or somethin i guess). My sister broke down crying, all i can remember is being so excited about getting a cat (no emotion whatsoever about separation). Anyway, i started to have problems in yr 7 or 8; huge fights with parents, violence, yelling, swearing way beyond the norm for teens. This is when the stuff about "Aspergers Syndrome" came up. After a fight with my mum, she told me that she thinks i have it and that she's thought about it since i was 3. I remember feeling like my whole life is a lie. What have people been thinking of me all these years? Did my teachers think the same way? I started to feel ugly, unlovable and i'm sorry to say "retarted". It's never been officially diagnosed and my parents have since told me that they were wrong about the whole "Aspergers" thing and they were just trying to figure out why i had become so badly behaved and that's the only thing they could come up with. I have my doubts that this is the complete truth. Anyway, ever since that day in yr 8. that word has been thrown around so much during fights. I can't bring myself to speak it, and my heart skips a beat every time i hear it. It contributed so much to how i am today (so very self aware, feeling unlovable, "how must i look to the world?") . Anyway, i can pretty much pinpoint the time that i started to get very, very depressed. It was towards the end of yr 9. I had made a group of friends the previous year(beginning of high school), in yr 9 i started to compulsively lie to them. At this point, i still had the whole "A-student, good girl, quiet, never talks, pushover" type front that i was playing. I remember lying that me and my family had been on a holiday for no reason. Over the year, i lied about the most random, strange things. I told them that my grandma had been posessed by a demon and ate cockroaches, that my cat chews on my fingernails at night and so many strange things. I never felt like a COMPULSIVE thing though, i didn't feel i HAD to do it, i just did, i dont know why. They caught on and by the end of yr 9 (this is 3 years ago now) they had outcast me from the group. This is when the major depression started. They started to psycholigically bully me, leave me out, spread to people that i was a liar and a fake. The worst had happened, all my life i'd worried about people at school and the world knowing i wasn't the person i pretended to be all of these years at school. It's too much to go into about the bullying and stuff but i was sitting by myself and desperately trying to keep my head down so know one would come over to me and bully me. By the way, this whole time i had denied lying about all these random things and stuff, and i actually believed what i was saying to them. I knew i had lied but i was thinking to myself "How dare they do this to you" and "how dare they say i'm a liar" even though i knew i was. It's like i wouldn't let myself accept the truth of the matter, which is i brought the whole thing upon myself. Around this time (the end of yr 9), i became OBSESSED and i mean obsessed with a certain cast of actors on a TV show and the TV show itself. To this day, i am still completely obsessed with one of the cast members (more on this later). By the way, i hadn't told anybody about the stuff going on at school, not my parents, no-one. My parents knew about the whole depression thing but i never told them why it started (school stuff). Anyway, all i ever talked about was these actors and this tv show. I spent HOURS on the computer saving pictures of them, buying memorabilia off of Ebay. I actually convinced myself i was going to go to America (i'm from Australia) and become friends with them all when i grow up. My parents knew all about this and it was all i ever talked about; how i was going to get my visa. I don't want to make this too long about so i'll just say my plan was to move to America and befriend them all and i'd have rich, celebrity friends and a perfect life in America. So by this time, the depression was a mixture of "the school stuff, no friends, bullying stuff" and "Why can't i get to America sooner so i can get on with befriending these actors". Fast forward to the current day, i've backed off with the talk about it. I secretly am still very obsessed with one of the actors off the show. This is getting very long, so if someone could please respond to this message i will continue my story once i get a response, so that maybe someone could help me out. Any response would be greatly appreciated. |
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Hello & Welcome, Me.c!
Wow. Your parents are not professionals; they cannot diagnose you. Of course, whatever they say is going to affect you. I regret your environments (home and school) have not been the most supportive. Please continue to post. Situation permitting, you could copy or print what you write here and give it to a proper counsellor who would understand what kind of help you might need. Also, it would be good for you to have a full medical check-up; depression can sometimes hide other less-obvious problems.
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My parents used to make it a threat to take me to a psychiatrist when i misbehaved. I had different personalities when i was a teenager. I had the sweet, smart, quiet side and another side that did drugs and stole money from my parents and snuck out of the house a lot. I got through it though. Im no longer do drugs or get into trouble, but I still have depression problems that I continue to work on.
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