I’m 14 and dreading the return of feelings that school brought last year. It was a rollercoaster, and just the tiniest thing – or sometimes even nothing – had me depressed for an entire day. Sometimes I zoned out so much that I would forget where I was, and I generally lived in my head, imagining what could have been different, what I would like to happen. It was this detachment and the feeling that no one related to this that really got to me. It’s those feelings that I don’t want to go back to, plus the constant pressure and having to do my best in everything – and having no time for myself.
I’d like to talk to my GP, but my parents alway sit in on my appointments, and I don’t know how to nicely ask them to give us some privacy without getting yelled at or grilled afterwards about every single word exchanged.
