How Do I Tell My Parents I Need Mental Health Help?

hello, my name is rae, and im 14.
recently ive been noticing that i might have anxiety.
i researched, and for some reason it all kind of relates to what im feeling. im honestly terrified to tell my parents, and i have been trying to drop little hints. but im really unsure of what to do. ive spoken to my school about it (school counseler) in secret, and asked them for help, but they cant do nothing until i tell my parents. im really scared they wont believe me, and just ignore it.
i really hope you can help.

Hi my name is Kyleigh and I'm 13. I have had suicidal thoughts since I was 9. My mom had those when she was younger. I also self harm but I do it because I have a voice that tells me to. I also do it to keep from hurting others. My mom also did that. How do I tell her?

Hi
I'm 12 years old and I believe I have type 2 bipolar disorder
I originally thought I had anxiety and depression but now I have looked at it more closely I have realised that I may have bipolar disorder
I want to tell my mum so I can see someone about it but she isn't accepting of most things and is very self centered. (love her though)
I just want help on how to approach her to ask her if I can see someone
Thanks!

I know that I have anxiety problems and issues with extreme paranoia but my parents would never take me seriously if I mentioned any of it to them. I told one of my friends and they really think I need help but I don't see how I could tell my parents. Even if I did manage to tell them they probably wouldn't do anything about it because we have other stresses and money problems within our family. What do I do?

Hi I'm a 14 years old female, and I need help. I've been struggling with suicide thoughts for about 4 months now, and they're getting worse. I'm scared of myself. I'm scared that I'm actually going to listen to what these thoughts are telling me, it has gotten so bad sometimes I have to blast music in my headphones just to think about it, or I have to hit my head really hard. I really think I need to go to a mental hospital, but idk how to bring it up, or even talk to my parents. My family isn't close, and it's summer so I can't go to my guidance counselor..

I'm about to be 15 and I've been having very suicidal thoughts for a couple of years now, my families very religious and I'm gay, and I lost my best friend. I thought u was finally getting better but then my mom told me I'm fat and disgusting and it all crashed back down. They won't support me, they won't believe me, and the only thing I can do to get my rage out is break things and hurt myself. I have no clue what to do and I know I need mental help and I won't be able to get it here. I think I might have to run away but I have no money and no where to go because I don't have any family in state and I only have one friend so they'd immediately know where to go to look for me. I'm trapped and I know I'm gonna do something dumb really really soon.

I am 14 and i think i have bipolar II, and i went to counciling for what we thought was anxiety and depression but it didnt help so my mom gave up and stopped taking me. My dad is almost always at work so he cant do anything either. It is only getting harder to try and deal with it. It terifies me to even think of asking my mom to take me back into counciling. Only one of my closest friends know and all she can do is provide moral support because she doesnt know what to do.

Hi
I'm 13 years old and I think I know I have depression and anxiety but I don't know how to bring it up to my mom. I feel useless and I cut and have suicidal thoughts all of the time. I want to go to a therapist but I don't know how to say it to my mom. She saw my scars once and she was mad at me but that's all I can do right now.....I can't drive I have no access to a doctor or money, I have built up walls of "fake happiness" because I can't show how I'm feeling without crashing down and havING a panic attack......please give me advise

Hi, i'm 14 years old and I think I have OCD. I don't know how to tell my mom because my rituals are in my head and I don't know how to explain it. It gives me extreme anxiety and I can't sleep or do anything. It gives be trouble breathing. I don't know what to do and it feels like im going crazy and about to die. I just want the bad thought to go away.

Hello , I'm fifteen and I've been struggling with depression for a while. I want to see a psychiatrist but I don't know how to ask my Mom to take me to one. I'm fairly afraid she'll just assume I'm being angsty teen or something of that caliber. How do I go about asking her in a way that she'll understand that I'm not joking?

I'm a 15 year old student, and i think something is wrong with me, whenever i'm mad i speak hurtful words then regret it afterwards, and feel bad about it, then i'll cry and blame myself for being stupid, then my crying gets worst to the point that i cant breathe anymore. I want to be alone, then i dont to be alone, i want someone to understand me, as much as i want to understand myself, i dont know how to tell my mom about this because im afraid she wont understand me. I sometimes feel crazy, like i'll go eat something that I'm allergic with then regret it afterwards, i push people away, i hate people, i feel like they trigger buttons in me that i do not know, i just get mad for no reason, then cry for no reason, feel sad for no reason
I just want to know what is this?
I have lost alot of friends, and even teacher in my school hates me already

I am 14 years old and I suffer from anxiety. And think I might be suffering from BPD. I'm not sure how to talk to my parents because I'm afraid that they won't understand. The last time I tried to talk to my dad caused a huge fight. My mother would always take my dad's side and it really hurts me. My friends told me to go see a professional and even tried to get me to talk with our guidance counselor to see if she can help. I am afraid that our counselor would think I am over-reacting. Growing up I was a very silent child. I wouldn't talk to my relatives during family occassions and just sit in the corner. I dont know what to do right now but I really want to get my parents' support.

Hi, Im a 13 year old girl and i have a stage 10 borderline personality disorder. my family doesn't take it as a big deal, they think im just over reacting all teh time. the worry for me and say i should get help, and i agree but i dont want them to worry so i say its fine, when im on the edge of suicide, because cutting doesn't help me anymore. and then sometimes my family is on the entire different side of me and just insist i grow up and that i make a big deal out of nothing. i want to go to a mental insistue aswell, but i dont know how to even bring up that conversation topic. please help me.

hey I'm 14 and i think something really bad is happening to me . Over the last few years I've been to things like CAMHS , therapy, and a few other places such as cbt training and such, but it never helped me. Back then I was self-harming , and had what my parents called 'low mood'. I was basically forced to go, and some of the time I refused to go to my sessions and quit shortly after starting. Now, I'm probably about a year out of CAMHS, and I've just been getting progressively worse, and no one knows. I've found new ways to be self destructive and I can't help but do them. Drug abuse, smoking, drinking, self harming, not eating for a few days at a time. I've started to see things, like hallucinations, such as dark figures in the corner of my vision, and just in general things that aren't really there. i find myself needing to blink a couple of times when I see things that are out of place to make sure they're real. I've also starting hearing weird noises, like footsteps and scratching. I hear people walking right outside my room sometimes when I know for a fact no ones home. Sometimes when everything is silent if I listen closely I can hear someone breathing or humming. The noises I can block out with music but the things I see are tormenting me, I can never stop looking around rooms, checking behind me, and while I'm not seeing things all the time, it is on a daily basis and it puts me in a constant state of fear and like paranoia. I also get seriously depressed at times. My life as a whole isn't very positive, I feel quite empty a lot of the time but, I find myself crying uncontrollably, shaking, I have suicidal thoughts frequently and attempted suicide through overdose a few months ago which my parents accused me of just trying to make myself sick so I can stay off school. I haven't really felt happy in a long time. I can't remember the last time I was actually happy. It's like ok seeing the world in black and white, everything is depressing, everything is sad or remorseful or regretful or painful. Or empty. I feel empty a hell of a lot of the time. That's my state of normal. But when I get sad, it's pretty much unbareable. Couple that with the cutting, starving myself, hallucinations, fear, hopeless and substance abuse and you have one hell of a mess which is my entire life.
I want to talk to my parents but both my parents have mental issues themselves, my mum is being unsuccessfully treated for depression and my dad has some anger issues and a kind of 'what's the point' attitude about life. They think I'm fine now. They haven't got the slightest clue. I don't want to stress them out anymore. They have a hell of a lot to deal with and I've never been the perfect daughter. social services have my name down, in a book somewhere. My mum is training to be a teacher, invested money into it. If I tell anyone eg. School, the doctors social services will have to get involved and my mum almost lost her job last time I had to be in camhs.
I'm not sure what I expect from it, I know I need help but therapy and cbt has never worked. Idk if there's medication or something that could help me but it comes at too dear a cost to everyone around me. I don't want anyone to know that I'm suffering, because then they'll feel bad, and my parents will suffer more for it too.
at this point I have no clue what im supposed to do.
I realise now this is really long and I totally understand if you don't read or respond, it was worth I try because I'm desperate at this point.
Also, I'd just like to add that after reading through some of them comments and your replies I think you're a really wonderful person, giving up your time to help people and I'd like to thankyou so much, because to a lot of people, your help could mean everything to them :) x

Hi I'm a 13 year old. I have very bad depression and anxiety. For the last couple of weeks I have been unable to control my emotions. I can't sleep till it's like 1 or 2 in the morning. I have thought about suicide but I would never do it and I'm starting to think I need to go to the hospital cause it's get worse where I'm inable to go a day without having many anxiety attacks. I can't think straight. I'm not sure what to do or if I should go in. Can you please help me

hello , i'm 16 recently i've been having all the bipolar disorder sympots i had it for a while now because by looking at what i did this past year i made a lot of troubles i pushed people away and sometimes i enjoyed hurting them but then i regret it and feel bad for them and for myself and i bring all the bad things i did back and start to have a very bad breakdown little things hurts me and i can't even cry or tell anyone my family wouldn't understand that mental illness is important and not to let it just pass as they say they think they're helping me by not talking about it but i'm felling the pain most of the time now i'm not okay i live in a community that if i went to a therapist everyone will think i'm crazy or something and i can't go alone i really messed things up with everybody i'm literally destroying my life i can't understand myself anymore what should i do.. i think i convinced myself that i'm gay and then i'm not sure anymore it's like i think about a thing and put myself in it and at like it and then boom it's not real. i never undestood myself i guess i never will

I am 13 and have been showing all the symptoms of the bipolar disorder. I don't know whether or not I am actually bipolar so I so I am to afraid to ask my parents if I can see someone to try and figure it out. I don't know what to do, and I am just afraid all the time I gonna suddenly blow in front of someone like I have done a few times. I have been extremely depressed in the past but that's been over for a few years now. But my mind and emotions have just been going back and forth from hot to cold and all over the place and I don't know what to do.

I'm 15 and I'm not sure what's wrong with me . I grew in a emotional and physical abusive family (dad and stepmom) but I recently came to live with my mum in a different country. And I was happy. Until I started getting really tired and stopped going to school . My mum is disabled as it is and I'm making it worse on her. I heard voices but I can't tell if they're really voices and I just want it to stop. I'm ruining my relationships with everyone. I keep thinking they'd be better without me . What do I do?

Hey, I'm 12. I'm almost certain I have maladaptive daydreaming and mild social anxiety. About the daydreaming, I've had it for a while, but I always thought I just really liked writing stories. But when I saw this illness, I realized this was probably what I had. However, I plan on telling my parents about that and that's not a too big problem for me. However, about social anxiety, I feel like it's gonna be a big problem. I'm going back to school soon, and, I know it will be a nightmare because over summer break i've gone to many, I guess, club sort things, like karate lessons, or volleyball lessons, and clarinet lessons. Every time, I would get horrible stomach aches, sweating, heart racing, and a big feeling of panic. This might seem dramatic, but it's true. This is especially with volleyball and karate, I think because I have to do it with other people in a big class. I also am not that good in school in the first place, so I don't know what to do. Help please?

Hello, I'm a twelve year old. I haven't been able to sleep well for a while, I've been having major panic attacks. At school, I don't trust anyone and I always feel like someone is going to try to kill me at any moment. I don't have any friends to talk to either. I see things all the time, and when I ask someone if they saw that, they ask what I'm talking about. I feel like there's this voice telling me that I'm ugly, that I'm fat, that no one will care if I'm dead, that I'm worthless. I have tried to talk to my dad who's the more understanding parent, and he got angry at me and told me that I have a perfect life compared to the people he's seen. He said that I'm lucky to actually be living in a house. I wanted a supportive parent, but I didn't expect that. That just made me feel more depressed. I feel like dying so often, and I just don't know how to tell my parents.

I'm 13 years old and I'm showing all symptoms of schizophrenia I've tried to tell my parents that I've been showing them but they've said that there is nothing wrong with me, but I don't want to experience these hallucinations anymore but my parents won't listen or take me seriously I don't know how to ask them for help.

Hi I'm 14 years old and I'm not sure what's wrong with me. I've self harmed multiple times but I have been able to stop and have been clean for a couple months but I still want to and still feel sad and I don't know I fall into despair a lot whee i feel like everything around me hates me and is just falling away and that i will never fully be happy but i don't know. But sometimes I am happy and I'm fine but I still know somethings wrong with me. I just feel like my life isn't worth it I guess. I don't know. My parents are always mad at me for something and I constantly feel like I can only disappoint people. I want help but every time I start to tell my mom she tells me that it's all okay and makes it all about her struggles which aren't really that bad. And then she tells me to pray about it. I m religious but there is a certain point when you need help and I'm there. what do i do?

I'm 14 and I feel like I'm always messing things up. My grandma hates me because I'm lazy and I don't do anything., because me and my mom and my stepdad live with her. And whenever they fight they are always blaming me. My stepdad hates me. He should because my mom and him tryed to have a baby but it died and I didn't want a sibling because I was jealous. I need help but I'm not used to telling other people.

Hey my name is Luke and I'm 16 and I think I have social anxiety because I seem to have the symptoms and I feel like I may be depressed and seems it's getting worse what should I do.

Hi I'm 14, I've been bottling up the fact that I'm think I have depression or anxiety for around half a year. I only recently spoke to a friends older sibling about it as she found me crying to my friend at a party who I had just told my worries to. They are the only people I've told, and they said I needed to tell a family member. I'm scared to tell them not because of how they'd react but because I don't know where to start as I'm not particularly close with my parents, how do you start a difficult conversation like that?

I've always felt empty inside since I was in 2nd grade. I've been attempting suicide since I was 10 yrs old (I'm 13) My parents think I'm just doing it for attention. There are times where I feel like I'm watching someone else's life. I hate my life even more because I am bisexual and my parents hate all people who are LGBTQ+ and think they should die. I can't talk to a counselor because you need permission from a parent. I don't know what to do and I'm so sick of living.