I am a sixteen year old indian girl. i suffer from various mood swings and get e!

I am a sixteen year old indian girl. i suffer from various mood swings and get easily hurt by what others say?

about my weight especially. i try to exercise and diet but the moment anyone comments about me i feel depressed and i start eating junk food. how can i change this thing about myself.

Hon, you are a 16 year old girl, and that is the hardest time for a girl. At that age, you are very self-conscious plus the other kids can be cruel and careless of your feelings. I can tell you to try to ignore them, but you won't because you are 16 and this is the time when you listen to all that garbage and take it to heart.

There is hope! In a couple of years or maybe less, you will start to look and live more for what is outside of yourself, and then cruel words will begin to lose their power over you.

In the meantime, you could try looking outside yourself right now by volunteering to help those less fortunate than yourself. For instance, you could work with children with special needs, or volunteer at a local hospital in the pediatric ward, or volunteer at a nursing home to read to old folks, or play cards with them or something like that. Perhaps you could even work at an animal shelter, cleaning the cages, or runs.

Any activity in which you can see that there are people or animals whose lives are harder than yours, and yet they soldier on, living with the most quality they can, will show you how to go outside yourself and how to count your blessings. In this way you will be happier for what you have and less unhappy for what you feel is wrong with you.

Good luck, and be patient. One day you will be a beautiful young woman without arrogance and with a kind heart, and all this sadness will be worth it.