Not sure if I'm depressed?
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Hello, so in November of last year, I began to have pretty bad anxiety and panic attacks everyday until about a few weeks ago. Now, I can't really feel any emotion even though I try and I know I should be feeling something but I just don't. I feel like an apathetic monster. Sometimes I can't even cry when I want to. I feel like I'm acting/putting on a mask when I'm at school talking to friends. Also I don't really have the motivation to do any schoolwork anymore, which is causing my grades to slip a little bit. This causes me to feel even worse about myself and I end up getting all these bad thoughts about how i'm a failure and i'll never get into college, etc. I just want to go back to my normal self and start feeling emotions again, and doing my best in school. I'm only 14 and i'm scared i've ruined my life already. My therapist says I should do breathing techniques to help me calm down, but that advice is useless since I don't even get that anxious anymore. Just numb. So I'm desperate right now. Help plz.
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nina11225
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yvonne81394 nina11225
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yvonne81394 nina11225
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I am also thinking that perhaps you have had something in your life that has changed course for you, a loss of something, a traumatic experience somewhere, a change that you might be having trouble coping with and your body has responded with anxiety and then a letting down, as in what you are experiencing now. It's a coping mechanism. For instance, some people faint when they experience something extraordinarily shocking or traumatic. That's the body's way of "shutting down" so that you can cope. When you faint, the brain shuts down, your heart rate slows to normal and then you wake up. It's sort of like rebooting a computer. But your lack of emotion may just be how your brain is dealing with something affecting your emotions right now, sort of like a protective mechanism. Of course then, you worry about that and it snow balls. Sometimes distraction is the best medicine in this regard like say a hobby or new interest. What do you like to do? What makes you happy? Are you artistic or have some talent in a certain thing? How about an extracurricular activity after school? Do you like to write or compose? Like to read? Join a group at school where you can endulge in a favorite thing. You may find sooner than later, your emotional health start to return. Or perhaps you can just have a good cry. If there is something that has happened in your life, some traumatic change or loss and you haven't fully coped with it and you have emotionally shut down because of it, getting back in to life will allow your emotions to kick back in so that maybe you can laugh again or cry your eyes out, pick yourself back up and get on with life because you are young and you have your entire life ahead of you and it can be great if you choose to allow it to be. Good luck to you, sweetie.
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