I need depression help severely, no options....what do I do?

Question

I'm 17, and I know I need help, but my parents won't help me at all, and I'm out of options, forced to take matters into my own hands, but I have no money or insurance, and I can't pay for anything, no doctor's fee, no meds, nothing. I live in Amarillo, TX, and there is no free clinic. I really need help, I'm on the last little edge, and I am getting closer to being strong enough to pull the trigger. I really need some help....I hope somebody can tell me something....

Answer 1

"There is nothing worth dying for that's not better served by living" - LL

If I was you I'd score some good weed and smoke that. Yes it has a lot of bad press and lies made up about it, but it is a natural remedy and helps you mellow out. It is not addictive and not harmful to you. Pharm drugs are much worse.
If your worried about cancer (which is genetic) then use a vaporizor (no smoke).

Watch a movie called "Grass" too.

Answer 2

You don't say why your parents wont help you. Have you sat them down and told them how you feel?

You have several options.

1. Talk to your high school counselor. If you've graduated already, and aren't in college (counselors there too) keep reading.

2. You aren't 18 so the next time you need medical care for any reason and your parents send you or take you to the family doctor, that's an opportunity. Ask for a moment alone with the doctor and tell them what you're feeling. They'll refer you to a psychiatrist and talk with your parents. If you don't know what doctor-patient confidentiality is, Google it.

3. Go here: http://www.nami.org and find your local chapter. Call them. Ask about free consumer support groups in your area.

4. Online support can be found through The Samaritans. http://www.samaritans.org If you don't live in the UK, use the USA link. They cannot discuss religion, politics, or tell you what they think you should do.

5. More online support can be found at http://www.crazyboards.org

6. Another option would be to get a job. Any job. Even if you work there only a few weeks it would serve several purposes. You could fixate on something else, meet new people, and have enough money to pay for a visit to a psychiatrist or counselor.

7. As a last option, because I haven't heard great things about them although they don't focus on religion at all... Try Catholic Community Services in your area or get referrals from your local crisis clinic. Plenty of clinics offer no-cost counseling.

Answer 3

Surely your parents will let you have a physical at the docs office. Ask your parents to make an appointment for a physical and then you can get help when you talk to your doc. Your other option is to go talk to your school counselor first thing in the morning.

Answer 4

I am in Texas too. Call your local Mental Health Mental Retardation Center, their number is 359-6699. They can get you or refer you to the help you need for your depression. They have a 24 hour crisis line as well.
PLEASE call them, before you do something that is irrerevsible.

Answer 5

Call the boystown hotline, the number is 1-800-448-3000. They can help you! Also you might want to point out to your parents that they can be charged with CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT if they fail to get you the help you need. Good luck, please call the hotline! Things will get better.

Answer 6

talk to a parent of one of your friends or a school counselor. also look in the telephone book for crisis hotlines. It will pass. don't think you'll feel like this forever. I'll pray for you. god bless...you pray too!
DON'T LISTEN TO PEOPLE TELL YOU TO SMOKE WEED. IT WILL ONLY MAKE IT WORSE.

Answer 7

Since, you are already contemplating suicide, calling a suicide prevention hot-line, may be a way of getting help. Following is a link, where you may find more information:

http://suicidehotlines.com/

You also, may want to do a search on "suicide prevention", you will get thousands of hits.

Answer 8

there is always soemthing. look up online for a teens hotline, depression line, or suicide line. they could help you find help in your area. call the hospital also and ask for help . you obviosly are smart enough to knwo you need help, so go gt it! if you parents won't help, maybe you are better off with social services. they'll find a family who can help you.

Answer 9

I also was severely depressed and sometimes still am. I also lost all my friends when I was very young and when I went to a "center" instead of a high school I only made two friends, and neither was very good, although one of them was somewhat decent. I also lost them in a few years.

These are the typical reasons for a person becoming depressed and turning to suicide:

1. Not getting your way. For example: A non-Christian being prevented by a Christian from getting something they want because that Christian is obeying God. For example say your friend has just become a Christian and you haven't and still hate God (whether you believe you do or not), and you want him to spend his excess money and watch some time-wasting movie with you but he won't because he's decided to spend his excess on spreading the gospel: You will become depressed at either the wrong idea that he hates you or angry that he is hating the things you love. Basically it's anger at God that leads to depression.

2. When a Christian sees others breaking God's laws, especially when they break the more important ones deliberately, and often. Scripture gives us some insight into one ancient Christian's emotional life, whose name was Lot:

"he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)" - 2 Peter 2:7-8

3. Others mistreating / being unloving to us.

4. False thinking such as thinking we can't do much to help anyone else in life or, after God has forgiven you, wrongly thinking that he hates you, and losing faith in his love for you.

5. Worshiping things other than God:

"The sorrows of those will increase who run after other gods." - Psalm 16:4

You may not be worshiping "gods" however, if you are not worshiping God, or worshiping other men, metaphorically or literally, more than and especially, in hatred against him, then you will become more and more filled with sorrow.

If you have not yet asked God to forgive you with sincere sorrow towards him for breaking his laws with the desire to stop breaking them, then according to Scripture you will not live forever with God nor will your mind become perfectly logical, but will remain in a tormented and chaotic state. To solve this problem you must not trust in any opinion over God's facts. For example if he said, "Do not lie" but in your opinion it's good to lie now and then, don't trust your opinion. Yes, it is good to lie in some cases for quick profit, but God will punish you for it, and if you are not forgiven yet, and you end up dying before you are forgiven, you will be punished forever for it.

He who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom is kept safe. - Proverbs 28:26

You should also not listen to those who are not forgiven for spiritual / moral wisdom:

"He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm." - Proverbs 13:20

That is common sense advice as well. For example say you want help understanding a hard math problem, are you going to get the advice of a hateful impatient idiot who doesn't understand math?

If a person truly wants to know and understand the God of the Bible in order to please rather than find fault with him, God will allow it and will let you know how to secure your future forever.

In order to get eternal life and an ever-increasingly logical mind you must also humble yourself rather than arrogant and stubborn towards God:

"whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." - Matthew 23:12

So, willingly, without hatred, do what God asks you to.

Another problem may be your diet and comfort level. For example if you have high arches, the pain from walking around and not having good arch support may be causing you to be easily irritated. Or your sleep may be hindered by light coming in from under a door, a clock, a humming sound coming from a computer or clock, irritating bed sheets, or an uncomfortable pillow or bed.

Also, if you are not getting enough saturated fat you may have poor health and feel miserable, and so again, will be easily angered.

There is an excellent health guide at http://romans916.com

Finally: "don't worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ho of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." - Matthew 6:25-34

Read more of what God has to say at http://romans916.com/answers.rtf

Answer 10

No!!!!!! Don't do it... or else you will be in hell, you know, I could be your friend, i want to help you, but I want you to stay in touch with me. You can send me emails, we can talk about it... I care for you.