TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
My life sucks. My two best friends are(let's call them)Eric and Andrew. I go to a boarding school. But on weekends we're allowed to leave school grounds, long as we're back by 10PM (unless we get a permission slip signed by a teacher to stay out later). Anyway, my parents were murdered. Two of the main teachers threaten to hurt me and they say not to tell anyone or else. Andrew (who, by the way, has been my boyfriend for 2 years) keeps getting sick. He has a deadly disease. He could die any moment. Eric, Andrew, and I sometimes get in fights, because Eric's in love with me (which I found out) and he gets upset if Andrew puts his arm around me or something. It's hardly happening now, but it just feels weird knowing my bestest friend is in love with me. School got really stressful, and since I'm one of the top students (my lowest grade ever is 96%), the teachers always expect the best of me. I started cutting, and Eric found out because my sleeve went up. He told me to stop, but I never did. I started smoking and drinking, and I've actually passed out from getting too drunk. I've attempted suicide once, but Eric caught me (Andrew was in the school hospital). There's no conseular at our school. I think I've been diagnosed with depression, and that I might have some serious anger issues, because I'll get really mad over stupid stuff. My friends are trying to help me, and one time they both tried dragging me to the school hospital, but I fought my way off. Someone told the school nurse, but I'm a good actress so I said they were lying. I'm afraid that I'll make a stupid mistake and commit suicide or die from loss or blood or getting too drunk. Now I'm crying so sorry for bad typing. Please help! I want to get better!

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When i was 17 i became really close friends with a 39 year old woman. My brother and her son played together on the same sports team and thats how we met. All the parents hated my friend (disguised name) Shelly but i really got on well with her and felt sorry for her because no one else liked her. I can understand why everyone else hated her because she was very bitchy but me and her grew very close. I was also close with her teenage sons (15 and 12) who were more near my age group and i always got on well with her husband andy. It was a really difficult friendship because my mum hated my being friends with her and she tried all she could to split us up and things grew tense between me and mum at home, but no matter what i stuck by Shelly and remain friends with her without telling her what my mum thought. Shelly started having an affaire with the sports team coach and i was the only person who she told about it and i prommised to keep it a secret. It was easy at first and i felt really special for a 39 year old to be sharing this with me. We grew closer and i ditched all my other friends for shelly and we constantly talking on the phone and texting day in day out. However things started to get hard for me as she started to become really depressed and would often phone me up and cry and send me very suicidal text messages, all caused by this affair and i never knew how to adivse her properly and i was the only person who could help her and stop her. I soon got really depressed my self and quite ill when her oldest son who i liked very much asked me if i knew what was the matter with his mum at home. This upset so much as i had to lie to him and mine and shellys relationship started to go down hill. I became really depressed, ill and unsettled and was forced to tell my mum and dad all about the secret affaire i had been keeping. Now i dont see shelly anymore because i betrayed her and my mum and dad stopped me from seeing her as they said she had ruined me should have never told me such secrets. Its been 4/5 months since i have been in touch with her and i thought things would get better but they don't. I miss her so much, we were best friends and i can't cope with out her and i don't have many more friends. Are my mum and dad right? was shelly wrong by telling me such a secret? was it wrong for me to be such good friends with someone so much older? please help.

TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
I am so messed up, you have know idea. I'm so depressed, I hate my life so much. I cry every single day, I just want to kill myself and get it over with. I go to counciling but its not helping at all, but I tell my mom it is because I don't want to dissapoint her. She expects so much from me, and I don't think I can live up to her expectations. I've been cutting for 2 years now and can't stop. I love to draw but whenever I do I only draw depressing drawings which makes me even more depressed. I don't know what to do anymore, my life isn't worth living anymore,help!!!

TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
well i have a lot of problems i feel worthless the only reason i am still a live is my friends i am over weight and have been starving or making myself throw up after i eat and i hate my body my grades r stress to me and i hate my mom i am going to try and get emancipated to get away all i want to do is to take a ton of pills and on top of all this a guy i like is rumored to like me i dont know what to do i hate myself

TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
i cut alot and i can't seem to stop. it's changed my dieting, i dont want to eat so i skip most of my meals, but my grades are still good. my parents think i lie all the time, so i know they won't take this seriously. i've been to 2 psychologists because my mom thought it would help me deal with my parents divorce a couple years ago, and no one even knew. i have serious trust issues and i broke up with my last 5-month boyfriend because he thought the suicide thoughts were just like everyone else's and that they would eventually go away. i've been thinking about suicide since i was 9 and a half, when i first started cutting myself. i don't think my problem's that serious, but i don't want to kill myself because i think it's a sin and i don't want to hurt anyone, that's why i havent told any of my friends or family. lately, it's gotten worse, i can't seem to stop cutting my arms, and i can't wear short sleeves anymore. i have to ad mit that i love the blood part, but when i say that, i sound kinda crazy. i dont love myself, and i think my parents just think it's a phase because i know they've seen my arm at least once or twice the last couple years. i had stopped for the last 3 years, but for the wrong reasons. i was to lazy to hide the cuts but didn't want anyone to know about them. i started again about 5 months ago and i know it's because im really depressed. i would say everythings okay in my life, but it's not. i hate complaining about things like my life because there are probably people without anything and here i am saying life sucks with a psp in my hands. anyway, my mom thinks all i can do is lie and that everything i do is just a phase. she's a teacher and doesn't even let me on her computer, she has a password and everything because when i was ten i went online and saw stuff i shouldn't have. my dad laughs at everything i say, and my stepmom thinks she's my mom. they all think that i have serious problems, but it all involves lying. i got grounded because i talked back to my dad and my parents think im the worst kid in the world because i didn't apologize, which i always do because im always feeling guilty. im not allowed to wear makeup, go out with friends to the mall or anywhere else without an adult, and going online must be supervised unless im at my dad's. i wasn't allowed to wear highheels till a couple months ago and im not allowed to get a drivers license. and i swear my friends think im the goody-goody child of the year. i need help.

TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
I don't know what to do or where to begin. I used to be really happy. It's really complicated. I used to have a really strong relationship with my grandma, but she passed away when I was 10. I was never really close with my parents or sister. My aunt from another country came and helped take care of my grandma when she was going through cancer, so I developed a strong relationship with her too. But a few years ago she moved out with her family and I rarely see her anymore because her job takes a lot of her time...and my mom doesn't really like her because she's jealous because I like my aunt more than I like her...and she thinks it's my aunt's fault but it's not. I used to cut but I stopped 1-2 years ago and I've been thinking about suiciding lately but I don't want to die but it's just so painful and I'm scared that God will hate me and send me to hell if I suicide. My parents are the typical type of asian parents who expect really good grades from me so I'm attending a bunch of honor classes at school even though I don't want to...I hate school...and no one understands me. I've been to a psychiatrist 2 times before but it didn't help, it really didn't. I felt so awkward in there and I didn't feel comfortable at all...I think professionals are people who just want people's money. I don't understand why we can't all just share our wealth in the world and live together peacefully with one another without hate or murder or rape or other things. I'm scared to talk to anyone anymore and I don't trust my family enough to tell them these things...and even less a stranger...I feel cornered and I don't know what to do. I don't know what I did to ever deserve this karma. I don't think happiness is possible for me...I spend a lot of time thinking about the big questions...like why were we created, what happens after death..etc, and the more I find out about the truth the more depressed I become and I've come too far and I can't go back anymore. I feel like just the way I think is extremely different from other people...please help me

TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
hey; I posted a question about a month ago and it never got answered. my problem now has nothing to do with the previous problem that I wanted help with. I just decided to forget it; I feel so worthless I just want to die. I've felt this way many times, but the feeling usually just goes away. two years ago I felt this way for four months straight, and I've felt like this again since January. my parents are totally against counseling, so I can't see a counselor (I know, they're dumb) they say counseling is for people who are craazy. I've tried to convince them many times in the past to allow me to see a counselor but no luck. I called you guys b4 but I no longer have a cellphone, and am currently living in Mexico for a semester so I can no longer call you guys. i tried the chat, but even when it says ur online It says i click and it says no one is online. I could list my friends; but I can't count on them (yes inspired by dashboard confessional) my school in Mex has no extra curricular activities so I can't do anything there; and everyone at my school smokes drinks and does drugs. I don't wanna get into that, so I never go out with them I'm sure you've understood how horrible I feel.

TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
i used to be really happy and jolly, i was always smiling, up for a laugh and very fun, but just recently i have been feeling really down and low. I cry for no reason. I dont know what to do. There is nothing wrong with my life, everything is perfectly fine and nothing has changed, so why am i feeling like this? Is it just my hormones or could it be something more serious? Please help me!

TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
I was raped by three men about three weeks ago. I thought I was dealing wit h it pretty well, I've started seeing my school psychologist yet I've noticed talking isnt really helping me. My sleeping pattern is off, my dieting is off, I feel the need to eat all the time and have even been eating unusual foods like meat (i've been a vegetarian for 4 years). I haven't shown up to class and find it hard to get out of bed bug i play a pretty strong front and no one has any idea there's anything wrong with me. But I feel it and it's killing me, I don't know what to do.

TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
I want to kill myself but i know i never could because i feel like i'm alive to please other people. My boyfriend of 2 and a half years broke up with me and i told him i wanted to kill myself but he didn't care. he told me to call a friend so i didn't do it. i feel worthless.