ANONYMOUS

[jajay124]

I am a teenage girl who has been feeling unloved but people say they love me, I rarely sleep sometimes and people say I over exaggerate of little things. When theirs no one around I cry. Sometimes I feel like I'm fat when others say I'm skinny. I compare myself with other girls. i pretend to be happy when I know I'm not. Everyone treats me right and I do have people to talk with but rather not tell them how I feel.I eat lots of sweets to calm myself. I need to know what is wrong with me is been long since this feeling started.

[Leota63]

I was the very same way as a teenager. Very timid and self-conscious and low self-confidence. I never told anybody my feelings. Kept them to myself. Went thru days of mild bouts of depression although I would always spring back after a few days. When I got to college it was even worse. I compared myself constantly even more than before with other students who appeared to have it all together. I was even more shy and afraid to talk out in class, even with a small group.

There is a teenage friend of mine from church who is also going through the same experience. Maybe it's a hormonal thing. I know I have gotten over it somewhat. I am more open and less stressed out with talking in front of a group (still afraid of speaking to a large audience). I am more outspoken and no longer let people take advantage of me. So maybe you will grow out of it like I did.

I will pray for you. If no one else does the one who create you loves you with an everlasting love. He will never, ever forsake you even when friends and family members are not there for you. Do not give up hope my dear.

[Bubulous]

What people think of you is not important.  What is important is what you think of yourself.  I have seen overweight people who feel skinny and skinny people who feel overweight.  You have to imagine yourself on a deserted island.  How would you feel if your interactions with people whether positive or negative had no effect on your happiness or your mood?
If you are projecting an image to those of whom you are close to then no one will know who you really are.  Don't be ashamed of how you feel.  All of us humans have the full range of emotions as the next and we always will.  Some of them are seen as positive and some of them (like love) are complicated and you can spend your lifetime trying to find it whether in yourself or someone else.  It is like that song "looking for love in all the wrong places".  True peace starts within and spreads throughout.
The best thing I can suggest is if you don't want to let anyone you know how you feel, find someone that you are comfortable talking to.  Don't wait until you are alone and bring yourself to tears with this burden.  None of us could make it through this life without some help and you shouldn't expect yourself to do it either.

[Dolphinleiker]

It's sound like depression in which you should take to a doctor. Just because you have a simingly good life does not mean you cannot have depression. It can happen to an one at anytime. There is no one type of person that has depression. But you may want to talk to your doctor about it. Good luck!