telling parents about depression

[EM8]

Hello I'm 13 years old and i think that i am depressed ,i havent tell anyone,my parents are a bit  suspicious but the haven't done anything,I've been like this fore over a year and i feel that i really need help because this thing is disturbing my life..i feel hopeless all the time i can't sleep, i have nighmears all the time,all day i feel like doing nothing but crying and staying in my room. I can't tell my parents about it the have too many problems already and the will be really displeased.But i can't go this way any much longer... tell me what to do.

[PR7673]

I am 13 and my friends also think that I may be facing depression it's not fun and I know how you feel somedays all I want to do is cry and not even try to make an effort to put a smile on and other days I can be the happiest person ever but ever since summer started it's been getting a lot worse what I do is keep a journal and I just write how I feel that day what happens and everything I'm feeling it's like having a friend who listens to all of your problems right in the palm of your hands it actually has help me a lot you would be suprised

[EM8]

Hey thank you all fore your support , wish to you all strength and courage to get pass your problems.

[depressed13]

hey i know what your going thru and i just turned 15 and life is tough for me but i hung on and you have to too so i will be here if you EVER need a friend to talk to i will listen

[jazel23]

hi I understand how u feel i went through the same thing when i was young im 24 now and when i was 13 i felt like crying all day i stayed away from friends had no intentions on doing anything but sleep and feel as if the world was out to get me. I finally did get therapy and now im actually still going through therapy. Depression happens to most of in the world without professional help it can ruin your life. I can not tell you what to do but i can suggest that you do find a way to tell your parents and seek help. your young and you got your entire life ahead of you don't let depression take over your life. Just be sure be aware of whats going on and try to be around positive friends and doing things u enjoy doing. I wish you the best of luck, and remember don't let depression take over your life.

[AJRC323]

You need to tell your parents, and get into therapy and see a psychaitrist. You sound exactly like me.

[capegirlnoshoes]

I had similar problems when I was 14-15.  My mother was displeased to hear what I ended up telling her, and didn't react very well.  But soon she calmed down and started trying to help, like getting me to see a counsellor.  And now she's totally fine with it and really understanding.  In the end it'd probably be better to tell your parents because since this is so bad that it's really affecting your life, they'll just get more suspicious and maybe even angry that something is going on and they don't know what it is.  The sooner they're on your side helping you out, the better.  And they can't do that if they don't know what's going on.  
But if you still don't want to tell your parents, you should probably see a school counsellor or a doctor or some kind of health professional to give you some coping techniques.  Bubulous has already given you one coping technique, journalling, which really works well for some people - but there are lots of others.  
Also, when I was in school, after I tried the doctor and the school counsellor, I tried a self-help counselling book, which really helped me.  

[Bubulous]

The good thing about being so young is that your resilliancy has the capability of being higher than most adults.  An adolescents will and imagination are tools that can be used to escape extremes that many adults couldn't tackle.

The bad thing is when you have noone else to talk to but yourself it is hard to find the right answer.  I knew what it was like not to have an escape from the deppression when I was young and I know what it is like as an adult.  Society, when you are young, has a way of feeding the deppression although what you really want is someone to listen and give you advice.  I think that journaling helped me more than anything.  It doesn't matter what your write, just write.  You can make it a story, you can make it complicated for anyone else but you to understand, or you can make up an amazing story that you get to be a hero.  You can be a hero who overcame deppression and found that when he did it gave him a gift to help others in need.  There are teenagers out there who you need you to get better so that you can teach them how you did it and help them.....good luck.