So, recently I told my parents about my depression. They seemed to want to try to help, and I thank them for that, but now it almost feels...fake. Like, they have asked me 'how are you?' so many times that now I have a natural reaction to say 'good' even if I feel horrible. They have told me 'I love you' so many times that now it feels forced and fake and now I just zone out whenever they say it. They think that my depression is because of the weather because "Everyone gets depressed in the winter due to the lack of sunlight". So, now I'm taking vitamin D pills daily because I don't have the guts to tell my parents that my depression has been going on for 5 years. I feel more lost AFTER telling my parents that I'm depressed and I don't know what to do.
I regret telling my parents about my depression?
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- 3+ months ago by Raven_has...
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- fake, depression, feel, parent, regret, parents
Responses (3)
Ok kiddo here is the bottomline.
1. No, everyone does NOT become depressed in the winter. The people who do, have what is know as Seasonal Affective Disorder aka (SAD). You don't handle it strictly
with vitamin D. There are light boards you turn on and sit in front of for so many prescribed minutes or hours per day.
2. You do NOT know what you have because you have not been diagnosed by a professional and you cannot diagnose yourself.
3. If you have been depressed for 5 years it is NOT Seasonal Affective Disorder.
4. Your responsibility was to tell someone by the first year not go on for 4 more years complain about asking for help and diagnosing yourself. You could have told the school nurse. You could have told your doctor; I know you have not gone 5 years without seeing a doctor.
5. You MUST tell your parents because they are the ones who have to find a therapist; they are the ones who have to use their health insurance to cover the appointments; they are the ones who have to make the co-pay payments to pick up what insurance doesn't cover and they have to take you to appointments.
6. They are bending over backwards to ask how you are doing and telling you they love you and trying to keep it light hearted. They think you are nothing more than sad because I'm positive you didn't say a word about how serious it is or how long it has been going on. It's passed the stage of smiling and asking how your day went.
It is up to YOU to give them the information they need to get you the help you need. It doesn't help you down playing and minimizing the issue. You need to start being mature enough to tell the truth and be honest with what is wrong. THAT is how you get the help you need. You need to be in therapy not pretending everything will be okay if you take vitamin D pills because it won't because that is not what is wrong with you if you've been depressed for 5 years.
Now go have an honest chat with them and ask for therapy.
Good luck!
www.webmd.com/depression/features/seasonal-affective-disorder
Please tell them it's been going on for a long time and please ask to be taken to your doctor. There's no reason you should have to live in depression (and vitamin D doesn't even cure SAD, it's exposure to sunlight). My thoughts and prayers are with you and respond or message me if you need any more help.
Rather than worrying about what you have told your parents about depression, your focus has to be on getting rid of depression. You have to try to understand why should you be depressed, why not be happy and peaceful, enthusiastic and cheerful? Why not realize that you are not the one who thinks that you are the body and the mind? You are not this, you are that, the Divine Spirit. You think you are a child to your parents, but in reality they may be responsible for your coming to earth but you are the Divine Soul. You live in a body, but you are not the body. You are depressed by the mind, but you are not the mind. When you go in search and find out that you are not the body, mind and you are the Divine Spirit, depression will disappear Then all your problems will be solved. Therefore, work on curing the depression. Depression can be cured in a flash, in a moment, by the realization of the truth, by enlightenment.