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Am I depressed?

I've been feeling this way for a few months now. I'm 18 and a senior in high school. My parents are divorced but they both see me often and they both love me. I live with my mom. I started feeling this way when I discovered that my three best friends had the three things in life I want most: A pretty nice job, a good car or driver's license, and a fantastic girlfriend. Over a couple years I've been very unsuccessful in obtaining any of these and I've noticed the more I try and fail the less motivated and the less I care about these three things. I started accepting the fact that I'm lazy and do not deserve any of these things because I'm just not smart enough. People tell me I'm smart, nice, and handsome but I never feel like I am.

I use to be the guy that when he set his mind to do something he would do it and do it as best as he could. However, after so much failure I instead take comfort in thinking how much of a waste of space I am and how I should end my life. I also feel as though no matter how hard I try I will never reach my goal in life which is to have my dream job and dream family. I feel as though I'm only here to help everybody else succeed.

I hide my depression with what I call "my happy face". I pretend to be nice and happy when I really am not. I also constantly feel like a burden on my mom. I feel like I screw everything up.

So would someone please tell me what to do.

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  • OK. Right, now, things are a bit scrambled. There has been an emotional upheaval. And, the foundations like

    Rome seem to be crumbling. You said that you are a "smart young man." I believe that. But, right, now, that smart young man has kinda run out of Hope. Been "pitched" out into the mainstream of Life. Comforts of basic home and family vanished like a thief in the night. Bamm! Kinda like a state of shock, isn't it?

    Being dumbfounded! Of course, it's difficult to obtain those original Goals. Your mind is cluttered still with

    shock and depression. Right, now, you, the smart young man needs only one Goal. . .HOPE. The other goals will come later when when the foundations are stronger and the mind is less cluttered. Simply go to your local hospital or mental health org. and ask to see a professional counselor who will listen and help

    guide you at this time during your Life. The Reality of Life is Choices. And, you have arrived at that time

    where you are in charge of your Life and making Positive Choices. You feel Anger. There is Positive Anger.

    And, that creates Motivation. The energy to make Positive Choices, Freedom & Hope. I have Faith in You.

  • 7 years ago

    I suffered depression in my teens and it led me to drug addiction and self harm. You may be depressed and need some therapy and medication to get out of your depression. It's a chemical imbalance and people with depression are bummed even when life is great. But when thing's aren't going so well it's easy to fall into despair that life will never get better. But trust me, it can get a lot worse if you don't take care of yourself. A therapist first would be the thing to do to ind out if you're just sad or clinically depressed. Then they may suggest a medication, which changed me a lot. it made my life more manageable and I saw the good things I had and not just the bad things about my life. Either seek one out of your own, but it's best to tell your mom. My parents were supportive and I learned depression runs in my family and a lot of people I never knew were depressed and on medication for it. So try talking to a professional. Good luck!

  • Naguru
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    It depends on various other factors. Primarily it shows lack of efforts on your part to improve materialistically. Whatever may be your present sufferings and difficult, please keep your mental health always in perfect condition. Here mental health is only given highest predominance. If you have crystal clear mind and pristine pure heart, you can easily win over the whole world. You should have that strong

    willpower, bulldog determination, indomitable courage, mental conviction and self-confidence.

    Lastly, I suggest that you should consult a psychiatrist for your mental depression and take proper and regular treatment.

    Source(s): compiled.
  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    how should you end your life? go to a book shop or library to get Suicide for Dummies. If you feel as though you screw every thing up, you certainly don't want to screw up suicide by doing something inept like jumping from the first floor window. you are a burden on your mom. and perhaps on your dad if he hasn't moved on to some arm candy.

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