I'm too afraid?!


Question: I'm fourteen and have already been through a phase of heavy drinking and drug use, but my parents don't know as much about it as they think they do. I've always been an emotional person but right now I think I'm more unstable than I ever have been. A few months ago my mum tried to take me to the doctors because she suspected that I might have clinical depression but I refused to go. Lately, I've come to terms with the fact that I show a lot of symptoms of clinical depression and probably need help but I'm too stubborn to admit it to my parents. We don't have a good relationship and I easily break down and refuse help off my parents just because I want to do it myself, no matter how hard it might be. I'm scared but simply can't tell my parents or go to the doctors. I give advice to others on depression and things a lot but never seem to really think about it myself. I've messed my life up so far and I'm scared I can't stop drinking and doing drugs. How do I admit that I realy need help?


Answers: You've just got to bite the bullet and do it. It will take a lot of courage, but nobody will judge for taking a while to get to the place you are in now.

With things like this, its best to come to terms with it in your own time, which I think you have done. When you refused to see the doctor before it was because your mum was trying to force you to go, so you felt backed into a corner and therefore didn't want to do it. Now that you've accepted for yourself that you need help, you need to just go ahead and ask for it, and be proud that you have managed to do so. It will only get worse the longer you leave it.

Good luck, and I hope things start to get better for you





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