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I think I might have depression but I don't know what to do
Depression Support / by shydrum2169
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 September 23rd, 2015
...See more Hi everyone, Basically, for the past few months I've had more bad days than good ones. I feel extremely guilty and hate myself for feeling this way because in general my life is supposed to be good; I'm healthy, have family, friends, a boyfriend, no financial issues and I'm studying a degree at university that I enjoy. However, there are always some worries and things that don't go right and they seem to be hitting me harder than they ever had before in my life. Recently, I've moved to a new house near my university and I have seen some friends I hadn't seen since the last academic year had finished. Those would be the highlights of the month. However, my boyfriend is starting his first year of university (we're doing a long distance relationship, we have been for a year now) and has completely shut me out for a week (so far) and made me feel like I don't deserve much attention and that he doesn't care about me. I'm also a bit far away from my parents and I feel like since I've left for university they resent me for spending so much time away from home and not spending every single day with them when I'm in my home country. I love them and call them every other day or so, and when I'm home I'll spend a significant amount of time with them. From the outside my life is great, but what's really happening is I'm getting nervous about lectures starting and I won't be motivated or concentrated enough to do well. I'm very afraid of what will happen to my relationship with my boyfriend and I'm feeling hurt about how both him and my parents have such negative feelings towards me. I want to talk to them about these things but my boyfriend just shrugs it off and says I'm overreacting while my parents would just simply get mad at me. I don't want to have to deal with these problems on my own, so I joined this website to talk to a listener (which has been really helpful). I keep wondering however, if I do have depression (judging by the amount of days I'm down, with no energy or motivation to do much) and should seek therapy. How would I go about telling my parents about this? (considering they'd have to pay for whatever I'd need)
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