How do you explain to your family how you feel?
For a couple of years now I’ve been dealing with depression. Up until now I’ve dismissed it because I figured I know people who have it way worse than me so why would I be depressed? But the days have been getting harder and harder to the point where I often find myself thinking about ending my self. Usually after isolating myself for a while I feel slightly better and dismiss the episode as me being a dramatic 15 year old . But now all I think about is doing it. I often do things to give myself momentary joy but my family has started to question it and I have to lie to avoid confrontation. It’s even harder when we see news stories about teens killing themselves and their only reaction is “you teenagers have no responsibilities these days you have no reason to kill yourselves”. Getting up everyday feels like swimming through thick grey water and I’m slowly suffocating. I don’t know how I can look my mom in the face and say that don’t want to be alive anymore