i have a lot of negative thoughts, could i be depressed?

Question

im 14 and revently ive been having thoughts like nobody likes me, the world is against me, those kinds of things, ive been kinda down, but nobody notices. when im around people its like i act completely different than i am. i dont even know im doing it! its weird, like could i have split personalities or something? is it possible for that and to be depressed at the same time? i would ask my mom these things but she would say its all in my head since i dont like act depressed or anything.

ps, ive been having thoughts of suicide, like when i had a knife today and i was cutting up tomatoes, it took a lot of energy not to take it and cut myself with it, its like im scared of myself!

Answer 1

It sounds like you have irrational thoughts, which can be treated by a therapist. At your age, you can be with a therapist, without your parents refusing you help. Make some calls to a local mental health clinic, and go from there. No, this isn't a mental health problem; you aren't crazy. There are marvelous therapies to turn this thinking around. Any book by Ellis is great; he was the King of this therapy.
Thoughts of suicide are another thing; that is depression, and needs IMMEDIATE attention. Cutting yourself tells me that you are in emotional pain, and need to address it at once. Again, talk to a doctor, teacher or someone who cares, if you can't talk to your parents. GET HELP, please. I care, and others care.

Answer 2

You could just be really stressed out. Although depression is common for alot of teens today, that may not necessarily be what you have. What I really think you need to do, as hard as it may be is go talk to a mature adult, a school counselor or an adult friend, no necesarily your parents cause they are you parents and they may take it the wrong way. Just go and talk to someone like that because it always makes someone feel better to talk and have someone actually listen. If worse comes to worse then maybe you should talk to your parents or see a doctor.

Answer 3

I have thoughts like that too, with the exception of using a knife. I just wish I could dissapear from my situations. But nothing ever comes of it. I probably just need antianxiety medication. I am not fully depressed either though, only certain times and mostly at home.

Answer 4

I think you are DEFINITELY depressed and need to get to a doctor, there is a simple quiz they give you and they DO NOT make you feel like some kind of freak. Just go get on a good prescription, you need one.
Suicidal thoughts are not normal, if you get them again call a local hotline (look in the yellow pages)

Answer 5

It sounds to me like depression but of course no one here is a doctor and no one here should say you need drugs. That is reserved for a health care professional. Don't worry, I know people who suffer from depression (myself) and we are able to lead average lives. Definetely talk to someone you trust, teacher, parents, clergy and seek some professional help.

Answer 6

(Try to understant as much as u can)

Energy is neither created nor destroyed; it is only recycled and recast in different forms. Even the human body is a form of energy. Call it prana or jivatma or simply vayu, energy is that subtle mass which sustains the gross body and expresses itself through sensory perceptions and the basic physical elements.

The three fundamental gunas — satvik , rajasik and tamasik — which characterise the nature of the human being, very often in a combo, are further sub-divided into many basic qualities commonly known as human values. Love, affection, honesty, integrity and truth, for instance, are values that are as important to life as breathing or eating.

Though these values are positive, in the course of practice and because they emanate from a mind that is susceptible to negative thoughts, they get corrupted. They generate negativity and manifest in the form of lying, cheating or causing other harm.

The very fact that human civilisation has survived over millennia shows that despite all the negativity, the force of positive energy within all of us continues to expand and enrich. Eventually, even as there is cohabitation of opposites, a coherent and comprehensive wholeness overrides individual negativity.

Does it mean that the sum of all the good done is more than the sum of all the bad? Are we somehow drawing closer to our avowed goal of self-realisation? According to the theory of karma, every action generates a corresponding reaction — good or bad as the case may be. The process might take place in this life or the next, but take place, it will.

The theory of karma prompted sages to exhort humanity to be good and do good. This way, the result of a good deed will invariably be good and this will add to the collective good of the human species. This is what Sri Aurobindo called the Goodness Quotient.

Swami Vivekananda firmly believed that human nature is basically good. It is only to be perceived as such and having been aware, to follow it through, for the good of oneself so that it multiplies for social good. There could be a note of altruism in such utterance but also the fact that it caters firstly for the good of the individual self and for the latter to realise his worth (Swamiji used 'divinity' in that context).

Goodness per se will help improve the quality of life of not just the individual; it will help improve an entire community/society through the ripple effect. There is no such thing as "negative" energy, all energy being positive and constantly recycled.

Negativity is therefore an aberration and denotes a dysfunctionality, largely of outlook. This has to be resisted from within both by reinforcing the positive qualities inherent in human nature as well as making that an example for emulation in the larger context.

The lure of instant gratification of the senses might be the driving force in a society driven by consumerism. But then, with the realisation that all the material success and prosperity you have acquired over a lifetime mean nothing once your body lies inert, life takes on a new meaning.

We are often conditioned by impulse and driven by circumstance. But the pure and positive within us constitutes the driving force to take us through the vicissitudes of life with an undaunted spirit, expanding and unfolding its radiance to ultimately merge in the all-enveloping cosmic force.

The goalposts achieved fall by the wayside, the accolades and encomiums received fade and the once proud body lies grounded to eventually mingle in the dust of the earth. What remains is the energy that pervaded our being, pure and unattached, the soul force.

Answer 7

Tells your parents school counselor, or find a teen suicide line. Or your best friend...

Answer 8

yeah you are depressed same stuff is hapening to me but im use to it already

Answer 9

yes, see a doctor for some help