I think I have depression and I want to tell my parents but my brother recently got diagnosed so I feel like they would think that I'm just trying to get attention. What do I do?

Do whatever you feel comfortable with. I think it will help depending on what type of depression you are suffering with. I personally recommend to talk to family, friends, and spiritual advisors to help with your depression. It helps let the people around you know so they can lend a hand as needed. The most important thing about depression though is to find happiness within yourself. It took me a long time to actually figure that out, but when you learn to love yourself depression typically goes away and the people that you are close to will help you find ways to help find good things about yourself to learn how to love yourself.

It's important that you have your mental health taken seriously, and to not censor yourself out of fear of not being taken seriously or of eclipsing someone else. If you think that your parents won't take you seriously, you could ask for help finding a therapist, who could both help communicate with your parents about your possible depression, as well as help you start to address what may be leading to your depression.

I think that either you tell your parents or someone else close to you. You shouldn’t carry those feeling or thoughts alone.

I'd suggest maybe using that as a good way to start. Explain that now your brother has alerted the family to it, you feel as if you could be suffering from the same.

I think that it is important for you to speak up. You always need to take proper care of yourself. I think for this particular case communication could ease things out. I would sit with my parents in a proper time and space and with all honesty I would talk to them about the way I'm feeling and also about the concern of all of this being misguided to need of attention. I would also add that it is uncomfortable for you to tell them since they are dealing with your brothers condition too, but that the last thing you want is to make a bad choice and for this to become a bigger problem in the future.

It's probably best to just tell them as soon as possible. Maybe judge how they took your brother's diagnosis and go off of that?

You should talk to a therapist and then tell your family the result, they will accept and understand you no matter what

Depression is a serious issue and I feel like your mental health comes first, do talk with your parents or school counselor about how you are feeling.

Hi, that’s so sad to hear , I understand how you feel actually, my mum was diagnosed with a very rare illness and I have a lot of problems in my life but I just can’t tell her I’m depressed, because it would seem as I would want to get attention but it’s not like that and I get you. In my opinion , you should tell them that you have to talk to them about something serious and when they’re ready and wanting to listen to you I think they’ll understand how you feel and maybe will consider the option of testing if you have depression too. Taking things out loud is the best way to solve a problem and believe me , it’s really fantastic to get rid of all that thinking in your head and to finally express it out I hope this works! And good luck :)

Hello, based on what you have said I think you should try to talk to atleast one of them about it. Keeping quiet will not make you feel better so might as well try to talk to them about it at an appropriate time. they are your parents they love you and they will surely understand you. hope this helps. you can always reach out to me if you need help.