'I'm Depressed'

No, I am not depressed, but it is all I hear from kids and teenagers today! It is so annoying. This girl literally screamed at one of my close friends about not caring that she is depressed. Now this girl has both her parents, she is off to University in the summer and is beautiful. She has the perfect life. Her excuse for being depressed is cause she doesn't have a boyfriend. What B/S! This beyond annoys me. All of her friends have either been raped, parents going to prison, been abused, but they still live life to fullist! I just don't get it!

So What I'm trying to say, before you start going on about how much your life really sucks, think again!

And another thing, to those youngsters, NO ONE CARES if your drunk, went 'Second base' or whatever. All that means is you're braging about being immature and a show off, it's annoying!

"why do teens have so many emotional problems"

^there's already a thread in this forum thats virtually indentical to the point you're trying to make.

Yes, but this also indicates to teens that braggin is not cool, it is annoying!!!

Diffrent things affect people well, diffrently. While some have had hard lifes they learn to adapt to dealing with it and looking on the brighter side.....while others who seem to be born with a sliver spoon in their mouths have trouble dealing with things they can't have when they want it......keep in mind that this by no means explains everyone or what those people feel....just trying to make you see that even if life seems to be going well for someone it may not always be the case.....and keep in mind some people are just drama queens and are dumb....

Well said solus! i completely agree.

I think the 'silver spoon in their mouth' people often act depressed as an attention seeking mechanism. They have never had to deal with loss, pain, real problems, so they make up their own and try to 'fit in' with their friends who may have had to deal with something unpleasent.

also, people who have dealt with and overcome pain, loss, heartache, mental/physical/sexual abuse, really know what depression is, and have learned to appreciate the good things in life.

Guh I hate my friends flaunting their so called "depression" they think getting pills from the doctor makes them cooler-when infact they are lying to get drugs, and making themselves sicker by taking them.... yes there is a line between a depressed person and an attention seeker

good to get it off my chest

Im glad i dont know anyone like that.
all my friends are REAL.
mostly we appreciate life and when something goes down it goes down hard.
we don't shed tears on pathetic issues and we don't throw the word depression around we use the term 'down' or something like that.

Depression shouldn't be thrown around like it is today. Much like the word I love you. I think we've forgotten the definition for soem of these words or at the least OVER exagerated them.

I think this topic has been discussed several times before. I any case I happen to agree with Bob.

Bob does bring up a valid point. Those who have suffered through adversity aren't prone to get destroyed by a little thing. Yet someone who is unused to it is obviously going to take it harder.

While Bob you have a point, depression CAN come from a chemical/hormonal imbalances which cause emotional problems which lead to depression. I mean you can't say depression is only in the head, in some cases it is, but not always. my middle-aged father experienced depression but never had before in his life, he takes a pill, and its better. I mean if you say depression is all in the head, then you might as well say manic depression (and bipolar), histrionic disorder, borderline disorder, etc. are "made up in the head" too and that would definitely be inaccurate.

I am adding to it, I'm adding my opinion but rather embellishing on what you had already wrote.

And thats nice that you can disappear, but other people can't or will feel worse. You can't expect other people to easily do the things you always can, thats why people are different. =P

Okay, i'm a teenager, and i have problems. as does everybody else.
when you're my age it's sort of like one day you're smiling, the next day you're crying.... so on and so on.
but many people who aren't actually deppressed act that way or say they are as to get more attention and to be 'cool' no matter how strange and stupid that sounds, being deppressed is a way for some people to feel cool apparently, and distract attention from the people who really are sad and do need help.
because there are teens who have serious deppression, but most of them hide their feelings all the time as to not act like the other kids.
wtf

Personaly i have depresson anorexia and self harm, i dont know y either, i have bothe parents never really had anyhting bad happen2 me. except being the reason my sister nearly died but she didnt. so your friend could have been attention seeking because i dont go tell every1 ther is 4 ppl in my life who know(not counting net)
but teens do hae some problems but you never know what goes on inside some1 thats all im saying..

Bob, what makes you depressed twice a year? I find it queer..

""""Depression shouldn't be thrown around like it is today. Much like the word I love you. I think we've forgotten the definition for soem of these words or at the least OVER exagerated them."""""

EXACTLY!

^wow. i agree.

and i have been really close to some now dead people and it doesn't 'deppress' me, i think it just matters on the person.

Lynn, back to your FIRST paragraph in your FIRST post.

'Perfect life'
Dear, no such thing. And, a friend once told me "pain is pain"
He's absolutely RIGHT. Everyone feels pain, just in different depths. But, NO MATTER WHAT that's still pain.
You can feel pain for one thing, and it could tear you apart.
And, this girl with the 'perfect life' could feel pain for another, completely different thing, and it co uld tear her apart.

No matter who is depressed or why they are, they're still in pain for a reason.
Not having a boyfriend could scratch the layer of that.
Maybe there's a reason. Or, maybe that's all you really know about this girl. M aybe that's all she tells you.

I know I can't tell you not to judge or hate because it's part of being a human. But, slack off, seriously.
You've felt pain over stupid things before, no doubt.
But, pain is pain sweetheart.

That is true bob.