Do I belong on this planet?

You are at an age where hormones, emotions and even your brain are undergoing strong changes. It is natural to occasionally feel confused or depressed.

The best thing you can do is to talk to a counselor or therapist. Barring that, find someone you can communicate your emotions and thoughts with, sort of like a sounding board. Keeping your thoughts to yourself doesn’t help. If you can’t find someone around you then consider Fun Mailing someone on Fun Advice whose advice you like. It’s relatively private and gives you a good sounding board.

Check out the link below for information on teen depression.

  Information on teen depression:

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/depression_teen_teenagers.htm

   If you are having problems or are depressed, below are a couple of sites that may help you:

Worldwide:

Check out the Befrienders link below. They are not only a suicide hotline but also offer help to people who are stressed or are in a state of depression.

http://www.befrienders.org/support/helplines.asp

In the U.S.A., you also have access to:

Boys Town National Hotline

Call With Any Problem, Any Time

1-800-448-3000

http://www.boystown.org/hotline/index.asp

Fun Mail a “sounding board”!

I would assume that you can’t talk about what you are going through with anyone because it is too personal and you don’t want others to know about it in relation to you.

The solution, then, might be to pick someone on Fun Advice whose advice you like and Fun Mail them. (You can check out the quality of someone’s advice by clicking on their name; going down to their recent advice, click on view all, then click on the questions that might interest you and view their answers.) Explain to them that you are having problems and want to have someone to use as a “sounding board” and would like to know if they would be willing to be your sounding board. Fun Mail is basically private, so you shouldn’t have any concerns about your privacy.

Although there are many users on Fun Advice who would be qualified, I’d suggest the person be an Advisor, for two reasons: First, most Advisors have several hundred or even thousands of Answers under their belt which can really give you a perspective about them; and second, you can simply click on the Advisors link at the top of the page and view a list of the most recently active Advisors with information about them AND a total of their Answers. (Don’t contact them by that “Ask me a question” link. That’s public. Instead, click on their name which will take you to their Profile page, then click on the “Send me Fun Mail” link on the left side of the page.)

You also have the ability to Fun Mail anyone (Advisor or otherwise) by clicking on the “Send me Fun Mail” link near the top of the Answer under the person’s name.

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friends are overrated dude, get good grades and become something in life…acquire wealth, power, and prestige…then people will swarm to you like cockroaches to cookie crumbs

in the meantime…stop being a crybaby…man up

ahh… no dont eliminate yourself. I feel like an outcast sumtimes too… theres no reason to blame urself. people can be such jerks anytime you need to talk im here funmail me.

don’t EVER think You don’t belong here.People care about you.Like Us! Your family should,Your friends Everyone has a breaking point sometime in there life but you cant let them Bring you down! You’re at the age where your emotions and hormones are going through strong changes.

Ah. I am sooo glad I will never have to relive my teen years again. Can you believe that I only talk to ONE person from high school? ONE person. School is for learning. Forget about making lifelong friendships. Those will come around once you know WHO YOU ARE.

As far as erasing yourself from the planet. That is a horrible thing to suggest. Your family would miss you terribly. How could you even consider putting your family through that kind of torture?

yoiu do belong herer just as much as everyone else does and theres no need to eliminate yourself over those silly problems in another few years, youll be over them when you realsie who your real friends are and find more important things to talk about/learn about …find a hobby or two to keep yourself occupied in the meantime and nothing will be easier if you…do it your family and friends love you and when you die you take the love of all those people who care about you with you because they do care

stand up for your self and beat thoughs kids @$$ that are talkin crap