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

Hello, I'm 12 years old and I think I have OCD. I want to tell my mom but I'm afraid she will just say its a phase or I can fix it myself. But if she does agree and take me to a therapist I'm afraid that money might become an issue. I don't know what to do and I need help.

I’m pretty sure I have bipolar disorder... I have most of the symptoms.. I noticed most of them, but didn’t understand why I had them until I looked up what bipolar disorder was and the symptoms.. now I’m sitting in my bed, crying because Whenever I try to tell my parents about this stuff, they always yell at me and say “You’re being over dramatic, you don’t have a problem.” I cry a lot, I never knew why, my parents think it’s an “act” but I can’t help it. I sometime literally have to force myself not to cry, and when I do, it’s for the stupidest reasons. And I’ll cry, and not be able to stop, and then I won’t even care about the things I was crying about anymore, I’ll just be crying about how I’m such a disappointment and how my parents hate me. The only person I’m comfortable talking with about it is my mom, but she’s always busy, and when she’s not, my dad is around, and he will just yell at me for making something up to get attention. I don’t know what to do... they will never believe me.. I’m hysterically crying writing this right now.. I am so scared to tell them that I think I have it.. please give me some advice...

I suffer from serious self-harm and I don't know how to tell my parents I'm not doing okay.

I'm a 15-year-old girl and strongly believe in bipolar, my mother is also bipolar and I have told her I think I might have it but she tells me I don't..the thing is I keep to myself a lot and she doesn't know what will go through my head when I'm alone. I have told her to book an appointment with the doctor but she won't listen and thinks I'm joking. I have no clue on what to do and I just want her to ubderstand.

I'm 17 years old and I've known I need help for a while now. I've tried talking to my parents before and it got us nowhere. I'm afraid to talk to them about it again because I think that they won't believe me again. What could I do?

Hi, I'm 11 and I think I have a mental health issue. I feel REALLY bad writing this and like a snobby attention hogger as everyone else has it so much worse. I hate myself. It's as plain and simple as that - I hate myself. I mean I have other things up with mah brain but that's the main thing. Every day it feels like my life is getting a firmer and firmer grip on me - slowly suffocating me and sucking the life out of me. I don't have abusive parents, they're lovely! For God's sake my mum is just the best human being to have ever existed but my life is still hell! I don't know why I feel this way - I just do. I feel like I suck at everything I do, I'm constantly breathing down my own neck. I can't accept compliments as they just make me feel like an entitled brat. If I ever feel proud I get shocked that my brain did that horrible act and then I feel guilty and then I get mad at myself and work myself into tears all because I felt proud. I punch myself - I hate that I do but I do. I don't do it a lot just when I just feel soo rubbish I feel as though I have to, the only reason my mum hasn't discovered this yet is because I put foundation on and you never see the bruise emerge let alone see it after it emerges. (I punch my face btw). I just started secondary school, well I've had half term since but it's still my first year, but I'm at a different school to my two best friends. I recently went trick or treating with one of them and it felt like I wasn't even there. I had a total of 3 panic attacks while we were out and I had to get picked up by my dad. The reason I felt so distant was because I want really included, we were going with her friend from her school that I didn't know - I'm 90% sure I have social anxiety and I'm an awkward introvert that hates people and has panic attacks when meeting new ones - and I wasn't included in the conversations and I tried to contribute but I failed miserably and now I feel like our friendship isn't gonna last and I've known her since I was 5 - heck we've been beasties since we're 5 and now I'm losing her. I'm rambling now, ugh I'm bad at not rambling. When I was 7 and 8 and a bit at 10 and a little tiny slither at 11 my other bestie bullied me. I know why and I get it - I really do but it still hurt. I've had a bad back since some time when I was 8 and it's still no better - the hospital discharged me for it as 'they can't find anything physically wrong with it' and she knows this and in year 5 when we sat next to eachother she'd just kick my chair all day which made it worse. We went in 3 times to try to get her to stop but they couldn't do anything as she was having home troubles and was just taking it out on me. Anyway, I have loads of panic attacks and they're hell my hands and legs shake and I hyperventilate and my heart races and I can't think straight, I tear up and my face goes pale and I feel like everyone is staring at me and they're closing in on me. I'm sad all the time and I have mood swings (but that might just be hormones and puberty acting up) and some days I just don't want to leave my bed. I hate school and I don't want to go anymore. Today, for example, I was effectively pushed down the stairs by the other students, the halls and stairs are crammed to the brim with kids and I always seem to be the one who get pushed down them. Random older kids will talk to me and I freak out. I'm paranoid about what others think about me and I always ask for approval with everything. I never put myself first and will happily won't eat if I can't - I won't complain. I'm not anorexic if that's what you're thinking but I'll happily put needs after things for others. I never sleep enough but even if I do I'm exhausted. I hate myself so damn much I RJ ink I'm the worst human being to have ever lived and the person who died so that I could come into existence should have remained alive as they were so much more worthy of life than me. I never feel worthy enough to live - I'm worthless and useless in my eyes. I actually got a tiny bit better as my voice was quietening but I'd felt this way for so long I made it come back - I didn't want to be better - I don't deserve to be better. I'm self pittying and that makes me hate myself even more and I feel useless. I hate myself.
I think I'm talentless. My brain has become unable to comprehend anyone saying anything positive about me. I've had suicidal thoughts since I was 9 but I've been struggling longer than that. I want to die. My cat went missing last Christmas and she was the only thing keeping me going but now all I have is the hope that she'll coke back. I don't like life. I just want my pain to end. Whenever I try to tell someone I have a panic attack and I can't. I'm not telling a school counselor because 1. I don't even know who they are and 2. I can't talk to new people in general let alone tell them about all this. I want help but I don't feel like I deserve it. Thank you random person who took some of their valuable time to read this my only question is why you wasted it on my comment and not the comment of someone who deserves to be heard. Bye. (I didn't say that for attention I honestly do feel like you wasted your time cos you spent it on me)

I think I have moderate depression. I've looked at symptoms and I have pretty much all of them, as well as suicidal thoughts nearly everyday. I'm scared to tell my parents, because I think theyll think it's just a faze or just hormones. I don't know what to do.

I live in the deep south bordering Texas and I've made a reputation of myself as a "comedian", I loved making people smile and laugh because I just kind of lost the motivation to try and do better at school, now my parents scold me for just getting a high B when they themselves struggled to get a C when they were in school. My parents just shrugged it off when my older sister said she was getting super stressed from college and they called her "an edgy hormonal teen". I've seriously just lost all love for them, my sister, and everyone else around me over time, what was once such a colorful time making everyone laugh, smile, and chuckle just turned into countless seconds every day, just so dreadful to think that I have to live like this for the rest of my life because even if I do get help then I will be stuck alone. I'm not saying I've had the hardest life in the world, I'm just saying that no one has experienced what I have, and no matter what help I get, I will still be alone, people will say they care but they have either no intention or no idea how to help, I'm just on this earth waiting to be turned into worm feed.

I know this was posted awhile ago but I need help I feel like there's a bottle thafs pressure is building up inside me and is going to explode leaving just bits and pieces behind I've been pretending and denying that anything is wrong for so long and I can't take it any more I really really want to get help but I don't have a great relationship with my father in that way what do i do im scared of myslef but i dont want to let him down or for him to dismiss it help me please

Hello, im 15 and this situation is difficult for me because i dont live with my parents. there was a bunch of complicated stuff that made that happen but the point is, i live with my oldest sister. shes 34 and we have literally never spoken about emotions together in my entire life. shes this powerful woman who is strictly business and its hard to present myself to her as a adolescent kid who thinks she needs mental help. Im not worried she would say no or it would get ugly because she wouldnt do that but i hate the thought of her pitying me or thinking im crazy. I havent identified my issue(s) quite yet but im very suicidal and very depressed and probably have OCD or bipolar disorder but i've already asked her to put me in online school for next year and that was hard enough. I've talked to two of my other sisters about wanting mental help and they both have my back I just cant bear to thought of having to talk to her and tell her that im miserably depressed and want to kill myself like no other. Any advice?

hi I'm not so sure I have a mental illness, but I just feel like I'm going insane and I just want it to stop. I have a letter to give to my mom but there's no telling what she'll say. I'm scared and I'm afraid there's no help for me

Hi I know I have symptoms of anxiety and OCD and for around 2 months I have been feeling down and I feel empty and I feel like it could be the start of depression and I want to get help and I have tried to talk to my parents but they don't believe me they say don't think like, you don't and they think I just have stress from school.

Hello, I'm almost 17 and I feel like being a male teen is just so... Hard. The only happiness I feel now is playing video games and being with friends. I just moved across country and I've lost everything I truly cared about. For the past 3 years I've completely lost motivation to try in school. Basketball which I've been talented at and which used to be so fun, just isn't the same anymore. I've been holding in my emotions forever and only listen to music and cry at night since that's when I am by myself and feel most comfortable. I've been becoming more and more of an introvert. Since moving away from my childhood friends I just will never be able to find individuals like them. At the moment I don't feel like putting time and energy in making new ones. They helped me through so much and now... they're gone. This has made me so incredibly sad. I only can text and play video games with them now. I just hate this. Every relationship I've had has failed and led to heartbreak. So now all I do is seclude myself from family in my room and play videogames and watch YouTube, reflecting about the good times I had with my brothers from another mothers. I just want to be athletic and happy again. I'm always taking naps when I get home from school which I've never done until this year. I'm just so hopeless and I feel like I'm never going to be in my same state of happiness. I know suicide isn't the cure for this. Thank you for reading. If you're feeling down just you're not the only going through hardships. -Andrew from California

I'm 17 and think I'm bipolar. Now I know online tests are always write, but it's says I have multiple disorders and need to get examined. Is there away to get examined without you parents? I have plans to go in the military and I'm scared, that even if I'm wrong, they are going to tank that plan. How can I take the first step in getting disorders under control if I don't even know what they are? I don't want to tell my family because they would never trust me to be home alone. Please help me make a plan in moving forward. I really what to get an assessment, but I don't know where or how.

hey, i really feel like i need to talk to my dad and ask about being admitted, i feel like he’d understand the most but i’m scared he’s going to tell me i’m being over dramatic, that he “dealt with everything i’m dealing with”, and say it’s an excuse to get away from school work or something. i once made a comment under my breath about death (i don’t remember it but it was definitely concerning) and all he said was “stop having a pity party, it won’t get you out of your work.”
i just want to feel okay, i feel like it’s possible i may have depression, ed, bipolar disorder and/or be a sociopath. i’m young and not sure what to do.

I am under the age of ten, and i get bad anxiety. and i am nervous to talk to my parents. I want to talk to the School Social Worker, but I have to tell my parents that I am having a meeting with her, which would mean I have to explain it to them. What should i do?

This may get lost but imma just
Ill start out with:
I'm not technically diagnosed, but my parents know I have anxiety disorder. They don't wanna do medication cause of it messing with my brain or something I dunno.
I want medication for it though. But then I also don't know how to say this, as it would be sudden, because I don't talk to my parents about my anxiety often.
Something, though, my parents don't know, is that I think I have walking/ Smiling depression. I've lost interest in everything other than beekeeping. I feel horrible, but I fake happiness. At school, I'm perceived as the Bubbly, happy, innocent female. (I'm 4'9 at 13) And so do my teachers, other than one person, who I think kinda understands how i feel, though we don't talk much, but I THINK I'm one of her favorites.
I can't imagine telling our school counselor, who hates me (Who knows why)
I don't have teachers who don't like my 'Personality' And I'm really the class pet in all my classes. I'm kinda hit with a couple mean stuff.
There's one guy, we'll call him Jonas, not his real name.
He's mean to everyone, but especially me. No one knows, other than the school counselor who went, "Well, maybe he likes you." Honey, WHAT?
He picked on me in 6th grade, but thankfully I didn't have any classes with him in seventh grade.
I feel tried out after every day and just wanna draw, instead of doing what I need. Ill be interested in something for a week or two, then just lose interest for some reason.
I just can't take it anymore.
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