1)What are some signs or symptoms of depression? 2)And do you think I AM depressed?
1) I have looked on the net but I cannot find anything that is not in "doctorial language", and I need to know because I think I have some of the sypmtoms od deppression,, but I juts don't know.
2) I don't want to tell my parents about this, well I acctually live with my grandparents cause my dad left when I was 3 and got re-married, and my mother have some problems.
Well, anyways... I feel sad 90% of the time, I have major mood swings from happy, to extreamly mad, to violent, than sad. Most of the time I feel as if I am worthless, and I HATE my life, I feel like I can't trust anyone, I am also a cutter, I am losing interest in everything I like example: friends, family, going out places. I like it when im by myself but than I scare myself (by thinking about suicide {I dont want to die or anything} but thats how I feel), and all of these things have started happening within the last 2 months. My friends say that I have a "hormone imbalance" ( which I definitly do not, I was just recently at the doctors and he said I am fine), or they will say well just stop cutting yourself, or you'll get over it its just a phase.
Do you think I am depressed? And what do you think I should do about this?
It actually sounds like you may have Borderline Personality disorder, which is what I have. You think about suicide, but you don't want to die and are scared of thinking about it. You cut yourself, but not deep enough to do any damage. You have severe mood swings, feeling like no one cares, or that something else is more important to them than you, feeling worthless. It's all part of BPD. Here are a couple of websites you can visit for more information...
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/borderline-personality-disorder.shtml
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/borderline-personality-disorder/DS00442/DSECTION=8
if you need anything els funmail me okay...
this is about borderline personality disorder: http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/borderlinepd.htm
this is a list of mood disorders: http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/moodis.htm it has the types of depression and bipolar in this.
I'm no expert on borderline, but it's possible it could be bipolar.
