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I think I'm depressed. Solutions?

I'm a 15 year old girl living in Pennsylvania. I believe I'm depressed. I've spoken to my parents about it and they're so helpful in giving me ideas to make me feel better: get outside (I've joined the track & field team), go out with friends a little more, and take vitamin B. Mostly everything seems to help, but once in a while, I go back under and it feels miserable. It's usually when I'm just thinking about the way I used to feel and how it's always going to be a part of me. Sometimes I wish I didn't ever tell my parents because that made it an issue by itself whereas if I had just kept it quiet, it might have passed and I wouldn't have ever thought about it. I find myself always evaluating my feelings whenever something happens and I just don't want to remember it ever happened at all, because remembering it brings it back. I wish there was a way to just wipe out my memory of the whole situation and move on with my life because I feel like it would help. That being said, I don't regret telling my parents, because they've helped a lot and I know talking to someone was the right thing to do.
My symptoms are that I just don't feel like there's anything I love in the world anymore. When I'm alone at home on a weekend, I find myself not knowing what to do with myself and end up watching TV or netflix. I'm not suicidal, but once in a while I think about what I would miss if I did happen to die, and I come up blank. Not even my sister whom I love, not even my parents. I know I love them and I want to stay alive but sometimes I think "what's the use" if I'm always going to feel this miserable. What's the use if feeling like this doesn't let me have fun? Does anyone out there have ideas or solutions for me? Any help would be very much appreciated.
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I think you need to learn coping techniques, they really work. Example: when you catch urself thinking in that direction u need to think of something else. It'll take some practice but like i said b4 it really works. To get ideas try to make a list of things like a color  or anything, it has to be something not negative. It can be a smooth rock or just breathing whatever you can find to get ur mind back where it belongs, in the here and now.  Tell urself  that ur past has no place in ur future. Rememeber this takes some time and practice but DON'T GIVE UP THE END RESULT WILL BE WORTH IT!!!!
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thank you so much for your great advice! I will definitely consider going to see someone, I agree that there's nothing to lose, only stuff to gain. and my feelings are so weird right now, that even though i posted this not five hours ago, I feel really good right now, although I can promise I'll feel down again sometime in the next few days. thanks for the help!
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Oh, sweetheart, I feel so badly for you, and yet can empathize at the same time. When I was a teenager I had these feelings also. I wasn't lucky enough to be able to tell my parents openly (things were different way back then). You have to understand, that you don't have to worry about regret over telling your parents, or anything else, and making it into a "situation." That's life. Believe me, in just a few years you probably won't even remember these day to day anxieties; or they will just seem like vague thoughts you had back then. You do seem a little depressed, and while all your parents' suggestions have been terrific, maybe it's time to think about seeing someone objective--i.e., a therapist. Maybe you just need some mild antidepressant to get you past this rough spot. Maybe the therapist will be enough. I do think suggesting going to see someone is a good idea, really. I wish that I had had that openness in my teens! Keep me posted, good luck and God bless.
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