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

I'm 15 and I feel like my parents don't care about me much. the last thanksgiving I told my mom I wanted to kill myself and she took it hard and made it all about herself and my sister. she told my dad and he just yelled at all of us and grounded us from our phones. then they made a whole argument about my sister (let's call her H).the argument was about how my mom was scared that H wanted to kill herself. H is younger than me and she has had the tendency of saying she wants to kill herself as a joke (and when I say that she is actually just joking and sort of like mocking someone). And my mom took it to the heart. then my older sister had a meltdown when we were arguing and they talked to both of them about seeing a therapist and just disregarded the fact that I openly said I wanted to kill myself. It's been a year since that happened and I've been having more thoughts especially since one of the family dogs just passed. I've wanted to talk to them about it but I'm just too scared they will disregard it as they did before.

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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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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?

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'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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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 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.

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'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?

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

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...

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 want to get my mum and dad to take me to see a doctor or therapist but how do I ask them or bring it up? Because I have many symptoms of being bipolar and I get anxious everyday. Please help me

Hi. I'm 14 years old. I think I have an anger disorder. I have been dealing with severe anger issues since I was pretty young. I even saw a therapist type person while in 1st grade. I am homeschooled so I don't have a counselor or any one I can go to. I have had suicidal thoughts. I have also almost run away multiple times. I have symptoms like I have extreme rage episodes where I will get angry over something and I will yell and stomp and hit things. I even used to bite my hands bad. When I get angry or have rage episodes I tend to hide and withdraw myself from people. I feel embarrassed and ashamed when I have episodes because I know it is stupid. I also get really flustered and anxious about little things. I don't know what to do. I am introverted and I'm not good at telling people how I feel. How do I tell my parents? I have taken an online quiz that said my anger levels are really high and I should seek help. I don't want to stress my mom out with it though because I am one of 7 kids and she is already pretty stressed. I have tried to tell her something is wrong but she says it is just teen hormones but it's not because I have dealt with this for years. And I don't want to cause more expenses because our budget is tight already. So I don't know what to do. And if anyone is wondering anger disorders are just as real as any other disorder.

Hi, I'm 16 and I think I'm a bit of a hypochondriac, but I notice a lot of things especially with myself. I get super high moments where I talk super fast and am supper happy then a minute later I'm pretty depressed and want to go hide in a corner or have no feelings at all and a blank face. Because of this, I think I'm bipolar. I've also been pretty depressed (not consistently but with ups and downs; I am not depressed all the time or 24/7) since like January of 7th grade and I'm in 10th now. I also get panic attacks, and since I've started high school, I get them a lot more. I've learned how to control them okay, but sometimes I get really bad ones that I can't (also sometimes I think I get small ones but its been going on for so long it seems normal?) I have struggled with friends for years and have been struggling in school too. I am a perfectionist, so everything i turn in, everything I do, has to be perfect. I could get a 100% on an assignment or test and still not be satisfied. I know I have a lot going for me and my whole life to live, but I hate where I am at right now. In addition, I feel tired 24/7 except in one of my hyper moments. I overthink everything. No matter how much sleep I get, I feel tired unless I'm super stressed which I am most of the time lol. I'm sore all over all the time, constantly want to/ feel like I'm going to puke. I want to see a therapist, but they are all at least 2 hours away without traffic, and I wouldn't know how to tell my parents. I'd tell my mom, but I don't really want to tell my dad. He is kinda strict, so I don't know how he'd react. I'm just having a lot of internal and some external trouble. I don't even know If you'll see this but oh well.Oh yeah, with the therapist thing. I researched it and found a lady I think would suit me very well., but she is like 2 hours and 10 minutes away and I can't drive and am super busy, so I don't even know when I'd be able to go. Thank you for hearing me out if you did, and I hope you have a wonderful day.

Hey there. I really feel like adhd symptoms are my case and I want to have a diagnosis by a professional. Im sixteen so I have to tell my parents about it here where i live. Also, i anticipate that my parents will hink that I am kind of crazy to be asking for mental health help, because that is what the case here often where I live. It is thought that people who get mentally checked are crazy/ weird people/ psychopaths. That is not true, and that is making me so crushed. I want your help if you can to give me a way to tell my parents. (I am middle eastern, mental health is viewed negatively)

I’m thirteen years old and a female. For about two months I have been see and hearing things that aren’t really there. I have told one friend I trust and she thinks I have schizophrenia but we can’t dianose Me. As well with see and hearing things I also get extreme thoughts that the tv or a movie is sending me a code message for me to save the planet. I want to tell my mum but I don’t think she will understand. As well with that I have lots of symptoms with depression for one thinking of my dead. I told my mum this about a year ago and I don’t think she believed me. I want to tell her but I’m scared she might get mad at me. Please help x

Hey, I'm a 13 year old female. I think that I need mental health but I don't know what kind. I am extremely overweight and I have a lot of problems dieting. I absolutely, positively hate my body. I joke about it so they don't know it's too serious. I've talked to them about it before but they just told me I was beautiful and not to worry about it. I didn't believe them. I think I'm fat and ugly so why don't they. Is what I tell myself. I don't know how to react when people tell me nice things. Another thing is how weird I'll get. One day I'll be like 'I'm happy let's go hang out and talk' and then the next I'll be thinking 'Oh hey I don't feel well' I'll just stay quiet in the corner with my phone. I really don't know what's going on with me. I'll have really weird mood swings from fine to angry really quick. I always beat myself up for feeling like I have some kind of disorder because I have a good life. I have both parents, a house to live in, my own room that I don't have to share, and I am able to over eat. I tried telling my mom about how I feel and she told me I'm just going through puberty and I have a good life so there is nothing wrong. I don't want to try to talk about it again because I'm afraid she'll tell me the same thing. I didn't want to admit this but I've been wanting to cut lately too. I just love what my blood looks like and want to see it more. I will never do it because it would hurt and if my parents found out I'm scared that they would be mad at me and accuse me of wanting attention instead of my cousins who have these problems.

Hi, I’m thirteen and I have many symptoms of depression. I wouldn’t want to say that I have it because I can’t diagnose myself, but I often have thoughts about suicide. I’ve never tried to commit suicide because I know my mom loves me and I know my siblings do too but something is wrong and I can’t pinpoint what. I’ve written down lists on the least painful ways to commit suicide and have had thoughts on how to perform it but what’s stopping me the most isn’t the fact that I know a part of my family loves me, it’s because I’m a wimp who’s scared of pain. I’ve gained a lot of weight the last 6 months too (about 35 lbs/16k) because I’ve just been stuffing myself with snacks and unhealthy condiments. I’ve had a hard time in school because I’ve changed schools (which I had too because the school I went to only grades up until the sixth one) and I got about five or six’s Fs because I just can’t handle school or any kind of work related activities. I always had it quite easy in school too and therefore I never did homework and just like that I now don’t know how to study, which hasn’t helped. My dad and my mom broke up when I was about three years old so I don’t really remember it but I do know that my dad was, and still is, abusive. Back then he was physically abusive but now he’s verbally so. I started living with him (my siblings did too, they’re sixteen and nineteen) biweekly and it’s hell. I HAVE to compliment his food and tell him about how he’s so freaking perfect. I think he could have some sort of narcissistic disorder. He gets angry when I don’t laugh at his jokes or when I tell him that his disgusting food is just fine (because it HAS to be perfect). His food isn’t bad because he doesn’t know how to cook, that’s actually the only thing he’s good at, but because HE made it. By the way, even my own mom told me that she has never EVER heard him say sorry and they were together for about 20 years. I don’t know, I’m ranting and I know I need help, it’s only a matter of time until my new friends discover that I may not be as happy and confident as I seem to be.
(I’m sorry if my English is a bit screwed here, I’m from Sweden so English is not my native language)

i'm pretty sure i have depression but i definitely had social anxiety or an anxiety disorder, and well i'm tired of it and i want help. but im only 13 and have known since i was 12 and im so scared , think i have just half to be strong and tell them. I cant tell them about the depression im to weak but i know i can tell them about the anxiety, im lucky that my parents care about me so its very likely i can get help. i just dont know how much one cost, i saw one for 40$ then one for 120$ i may half to give up piano practice to afford this im ok with that. Its just im really scared only being 13, im worried about the cost and my parents blaming them self's. (its not there fault)
-this has been really helpful thank you can you please message/comment me back.

Hey Natasha! Wow, that’s also my mother’s name. Speaking of which, I strongly believe that I indeed had Bipolar Depression and it’s because of my parents, mostly my mother. I’m not sure what to do anymore. It’s been years since I got myself diagnosed secretly with a friend of a friend’s parent, but life at home keeps getting worse. My mom doesn’t accept me for identifying as Non-Binary because I was born a girl and she doesn’t notice when I have Manic attacks. She and my dad try their best to spend time with myself and my two sisters, but I’ve, to keep them from worrying about me, detached myself from them. Some people have noticed me becoming Anti-Social, but all they do is acknowledge it and forget. I feel alone and scared and having Bipolar Depression just makes me want to kill my self, which I have attempted before but failed all without my parents knowing. If you have any advice for an Agender 13 year old who, by the way, cannot talk to a school counselor because the counselor isn’t trained to handle situations like this, then I’m all ears, Natasha.
Thank you for the support I’ve seen you give others,
- Alexis

I’m 16 and I have like theese moments where I’m so happy and I feel like I can do anything and then the next I’m in my bed crying and don’t want to get up and I don’t know what to do and I don’t know what is wrong with me.. my mom is bipolar and I think maybe I am too but I’m scared to talk to her about it cuz it’s really hard for her and I don’t want to upset her