What is wrong with me

hi there
I have for a while now realised that something isent quite right with me.
I am a self harmer and i have been for quite a long time though i understand this is supposed to be linked with anxiaty and/or depression i was always possotive that i had neither one of these prolems as i was never really deppressed, i was always unhappy but unhappy with a big genuin smile on my face, as far as i was concerned i was just a cutter.
However now as the years have gone on i am beginning to realise that i am actually really very very depressed, i cut at least once a week, i'm preocupied with thoughts of suicide and death, i hate myself alot and skip work because of how i feel, there are days when i cannot even leave my room because im so misrable and tired and cry at everything and anything, life seems increadably bleak to me.
And yet this severe depression never seems to last more then a month at the most and then i'm ok again. I'm happy,extatic, on top of the world, i feel like i'v been recharging in my depression because im so hyper and feel like i could take on the world, i shop, bake untill 2am,i get bad insomnia, can't eat at all, make life changing decicions that i cannot possibly achieve and don't really want to achieve. But at the same time i'm still preoccupied with my own demise and suicide and death and hatred for myself but i'm so happy it just dosent make sense.
i'v had this problem for a few years now and its getting sooooo tiering, i'm scared of going to my doctor because i'm terifide he'll just wave my prolems away as uninportant and tell me im to young to be depressed or to have manic depression (i'm 21) and i'll be left in the same boat as i was before when i'm really at my wits end.

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Comments ( 7 )
  • emilydoll

    TIMELORD! that is badass...

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  • Im_a_903_year_old_timelord

    Thankyou all so much for your advice,
    and yeah my spelling was pretty bad wasen't it (i think i put that down to writeing it at 4.03am, my spelling always sucks then) =^.^=
    I don't feel like its a serious as bipolar as i'v never had a fullblown manic episode (thank god)and i'm not psychotic.
    Thanks so much JanIAm,:) that article was really informative it was like i was reading about myself and i'v never even heard of cyclothymia. I will definitley be going to see my doctor very soon.
    Thankyou

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  • Your spelling is worse than mine

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  • JanIAm

    You may wish to see a psychologist or psychiatrist to be evaluated for a possible mood disorder such as cyclothymia. This condition is a milder form of bipolar disorder which consists of recurrent mood disturbances between hypomania and dysthymic (depressed) moods. Rather than list all of the symptoms associated with this disorder, I have provided you with the following link from McMan's Depression and Bipolar Web below:

    http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-93.htm

    Because your symptoms sound quite severe, I doubt that any competent and/or reputable doctor would dismiss your problems as being "unimportant", and you certainly are not too young to be experiencing a mood disorder. PLEASE begin the process of treating this illness soon. You will need time to find a suitable practitioner, book an appointment, establish a diagnosis, and begin a course of treatment. The sooner you begin to address your urgent needs, the better. I hope that you write back to let us know how things go for you -- best of luck.

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  • Asskicker202

    you need to take some time for your self and relax nothing good can come from strees

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  • Potato

    you sound manic, bipolar. You should definitely see a pcyhiatrist and get some medication, it will probably help greatly.

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  • thinkin4all

    this is not unnormal at all... no you should definatly go to a phycologist. soon they can prescribe you antidepressants and help in many ways ...

    serioulsy docter=good choice.

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