I have an overwhelming amount of guilt from my childhood, something you could say I was young so it doesn't matter but every day the guilt gets to me and I can't stop crying nobody knows about this - I try to be there for my friends with other issues so I have to act strong but nobody knows how I feel and nobody is here to help me - I feel I have depression or anxiety but I don't want to tell my parents in case I'm wrong as I'm not seeking attention I just want help
-13 yr
-male
I need help mentally?
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The first line of defense against depression and anxiety is B vitamins. Get nutritional yeast powder and/or B-100 pills. Vitamin B2 is a water soluble dye that turns urine bright yellow. When the color fades, it's time for another dose. Read some books about nutrition so you know how to eat right.
Go to any church and talk to the minister.
When you feel like that at your age you have to talk to someone and get the support you need. When you hold on to negative feelings they can become a lot more troubling for you. Its very important to reach out and see a doctor that can set you up to have the right support. Please don't do this alone get the help you need. Life is good but you have to help it along sometimes.
Let's lay this on the line, a lot of homeopaths think vitamins will cure everything. According to the Mayo Clinic there is no hard and fast evidence for that.
"Keep in mind, the role of B vitamins in depression isn't clear. If you have a vitamin deficiency, taking a supplement may help. But no supplement can replace proven depression treatments such as antidepressants and psychological counseling. Daniel K. Hall-Flavin, M.D."
Let me tell you a couple things about depression from personal and work experience. When you are dealing with it you will be tired and you trying to help other people with their problems, in reality, isn't helping them and it absolutely isn't helping yourself. There's too much emotion on your plate. You aren't a therapist, you can't help anyone else when you can't even help yourself.
Whatever happened when you were a kid is not something to gloss over and say it was nothing. If it was nothing it wouldn't be bothering you but it is, so it's a something. By the way you are still a kid and life should not be that upsetting. And it will be a something until you can make it a nothing.
You get there by talking to a parent and letting one go to bat for you with the other one or you talk to both. Choose whomever will listen with an open mind. You say you've been having some problems that you've tried solving them yourself and you can't so you need their help and advice. Parents love to be asked. They are the ones who okay therapy and pay for it, so bring them in.
You cannot diagnose yourself so you don't tell them you have anxiety or depression. You just offer the symptoms: school, concentration, sleep problems, bad dreams, sad, tears, enjoyment gone, whatever you experience. A therapist will diagnose what the problem is. That's when you discuss your childhood problem.
That's when YOU make your something a nothing. I wish you the best of luck and a much happier new year.