I Don't Know If I Should Talk to a Doctor or Not?!

Question: I Don't Know If I Should Talk to a Doctor or Not?

I was going to talk to a doctor about a month ago, but everything seems to be better. I was like horribly depressed, at least I think I was, for like all of autumn and half of winter. I'm only fourteen but I really do think I was depressed. I felt horribly guilty about everything, I was really irritable, unmotivated all the time to the point where I didn't get up in the morning, cried about four or five times a day, began overeating like crazy and gained some gained some weight, all I wanted to do was sleep and not get up, I began loosing interest in things I usually loved, felt ugly and worth with no hope, and I had suicidal thoughts to the point where I almost attempted suicide. It was too the point I really wanted to stab the pain out of my chest and I really forgot about all the people I'd hurt. When I look back I feel bad about it, because I felt out of control and selfish. I had other times like this, like climbing to the very to of my tree and thinking I was going to jump. Things like this. But it all sort of stopped, I have all the same symptoms, I just don't really feel sad or down anymore. I still hurt myself, I dig my nails into my skin and scratch myself,I used to pull out my hair in anger but I only pull out my hair now if I'm really mad, and sometimes I slap and punch myself in the face while saying stuff like 'You're pathetic!" or "I hate myself!" things like that. Sometimes when I feel emotional pain I flinch up or scratch my palms, if I'm in public. I still am very off and on about my friends, like one second I love them and I'm so grateful I have them and others I think that I hate them and that they're really mean or that they're really slutty or annoying. Then I end up being mean to them and then apologizing like crazy because I don't want them to leave me. I can't talk about certain things because it makes me feel the pain. With my friends I can't talk about boys or people from school because it reminds me of the times when I messed up or didn't fit in. Sometimes I will be walking around like near busy streets and stores and as I'm waiting for the cross walk to go, I just feel like jumping out in front of cars. But I don't. I feel really anxious sometimes, but not as much as when I was depressed. After I stopped being depressed I started seeing things that weren't there, like little bugs on the floor and twinkling stars in the night sky when there was no stars out. I sometimes say things move or like think I see little spider legs or cats with no facial details. I had felt things that aren't there either like a mouse pressing against my body to find there was no mouse. It's really scary. But it's now manageable, I think, I mean I don't see things al the time, not as much at least and things seem to be almost ok.

Should I see a doctor?
Could there be something still wrong?
Even if I was to see a doctor what would I even tell him?

Thanks any information is really appreciated.

Answers:

You do need to see a doctor. It is important for you to get help with the symptoms you still seem to be experiencing. Based on what you are describing, it is likely you could benefit immensely from some medication. It is definitely the case that you need to be in counseling. Only a psychiatrist can make a diagnosis AND prescribe medication. I would suggest making an appointment with one ASAP.

As for what to tell the doctor, you could even print off what you wrote here and bring it in with you. This is exactly the stuff that the doctor needs to know. It is important that you do not hide any information from your doctor because they can only help you if you are honest with them, and I know you want to feel better.

I feel for you. I have been in a similar place and it is very painful to endure depression. Now is the time to get help so that later in your life you do not regret years spent feeling awful when you could have been enjoying yourself

Personal Experience

If you're going to talk to someone it probably shouldn't be a doctor. Rather talk to your parents( preferably your mother) or your closest, truest friend, and tell them what you wrote here. You should also think of things that might have caused you to be stressful, and try to find a solution to the problems that you might have.

Psychotic episodes,suicidal thoughts, self-inflicted injuries,should always be treated as medical emergencies. See a doctor, ASAP.

http://www.thehopeline.com/CSDefault.asp…

a web site that offers hope for teens through early 20s

yes, see a doctor. tell him what you told us.

Wow. I didn't know it was possible for someone to feel like I do.

I thought (and still do) I suffered from depression since late 2010 (I was 13). I became so sad, so angry, thought I had no worth. Now it's on and off. I can go for a month without feeling depresses, and then I'll be depressed for a month. And then maybe for 2 days I'll be fine again, and then I'm depresse again.

I also went through a long perjuring time hallucinating and feeling things that weren't there. It got so bad I once thought I saw a ghost. Man that was freaky. Then there was that time I felt like someone could ready mind. I overcame that one thankfully.

Then there's things like I misjudge my bodies length/strength/loudness. I find myself crashing into everyhing, and hurting people on accident. This is like a near constant state though.

I also talk to myself 24/7. I have at least 3 people in my head, plus "me". I can have real augments, and they are all in different sides, and I have no control over them.

There's heaps more things, like if I have a conversation with my parents, and they start asking me about how I'm feeling, I recede into my mind, lock all the doors in my head, and one of the people in my head acty mouth. They tell mr what happened after the convo, and I often find I've been crying.

Maybe your a skitzerfranic? I did a test and found I was very high on the skitzerfranic charts, also the depressed and introverted.

I found telling myself I love myself, I'm beautiful, being affectionate to myself, and telling myself I'm sexy really works. I've also become a bit "eccentric". I just forced myself to stop caring at all about what other peole think about me, and do whatever I want (within reason). It's working, and Ive never seen a doctor either. Give it a go (:

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