For the past four or five months I’ve been depressed. I’ve also been cutting myself. I’m trying to keep a brave face for my friends and families sake, but I’m finding it too hard. My parents think I’m just being a teenager, but it doesn’t feel like teenage moodswings. I’ve tried to talk to them about it, but they just laughed at me. Do you have any advice for me? :/

You can’t force yourself to be happy, and you can’t make other people happy if you yourself aren’t. You really have to sit down with your parents and tell them that if they don’t understand where you are coming from you can keep cutting yourself. Go to the school help as well, get a therapist. GET HELP. It is out there, I promise someone is out there to help you. Dear whoever is reading this. Guess what? You are loved. No, don’t nod you head and say you’re not. You are. You are lovely and you are loved. End of story.
-JaneDoe

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