Do I Have Depression?

Question

I am a 16 year old boy & I need some help. First off I've been noticing I've been really depressed lately. It seems like for the past year or so, for about 2 week periods i get really down & feel like I'm worthless. I usely ask myself how i can be loved by anyone or remind myself of my failures. I usely go to bed really early & just lay there. I don't cry though, i just lay there, sighing & thinking about how my friends don't really like me & how i'm terrible at school & basically everything. I seem to sigh a lot during these periods, escpecially while walking around & I usually feel like my heart is in my stomach. The thing is, if one of my friends come over I feel fine but as soon as they leave I'm sad again. This only happens in 2-3 week periods about every 2-5 months so I don't know. Is this normal? Please help I don't really know what to do.

Answer 1

may be

Answer 2

you should talk to a doctor hun, only they can figure out this, but yes it sounds like depression, and yes it does come and go for some people, like they *snap* out of it for a few weeks, but if it keeps coming back, that is not a very pleasant way of life, you deserve to get help, and there are things out there that can do it, try them.  good luck

Answer 3

why not spend more time with your friends, start a group, a study group to improve in school..start a hobby doing something you love, go to the park, the YMCA, make yourself useful..we all go through low time, find worthless. you don;t have to compare yourself with anyone. be yourself, thers something special in you..God made you. and theres only one of you..you are loved..best the best you, that you can be!

Answer 4

sounds like you wayyyyy toooo much time on you hands, find a GF or do something to take the time off of your hands...excerise, do some walking something to take your mind off of everything...