Anit Depressants

I now go to counselling and they want to give me a medication evaluation to put me on anti depressants and sleep medication but I live with my cousin and I need her permission but she says no. How can I change her mind

Don't change her mind. There's a reason she says no.
I've been on anti depressants before. They're so bad for you. Bad for your body, your system, your awareness. You start feelnig so slow. They don't start to work until almost 3 months into the medication program that your doctor will give you.
There are so many side effects. When it all comes down to it, you've just got to learn to suck it up like people used to. Life goes on.
I promise you, it's better not to go on them unless you've got a serious psychological disorder, and if you were that bad, then your cousin wouldn't get a say. The doctors would put you on them. But obviously you're young enough that you need your guardian's permission. And I can put money on it, that this is a phase.

And yes, I'm young too. I'm not saying I'm always right.
It's simply that I know through my own experience... You should try dealing with yourself as long as you possibly can before giving into the medication....
They just weren't worth it for me.

Life doesn't go on if you have a serious problem, some people need to be medicated.

Medications arent all that bad and they can start working in as little as one to two weeks it all depends on your body. i have been on enough for long enough. you just need to be careful and honest. they say they make you suicidal but they only do that because they make you feel better enough to consider it. its not a permanent fix it helps temporaily get all the info you have and show it to your couzin good and bad. so that both sides can be seen so a more educated decision can be made.

Well your 16 so techinically the choice is up to you. Well at least that is what it is in Australia, by the age of 14 if you are seen as fit to make your own medical decisions and have them evaluated by a doctor or psychatrist then you are the one who decides whether you want to go on medication. So do some research and ask your doctor the procedure. If money is a factor their should be health care cards you can apply for that gives you your medication very cheaply. However that doesn't mean medication is going to be the right thing for you, maybe you should ask your cousin the reason WHY she said no?

^^^^ agreed.

I think you should change her mind. ive been on them. they didnt help me, but nothing bad came from it either. and if they work for you then think of the sadness you'll avoid! ah it must be grand. if it works then great, if it doesn't, then you try a different med or give up. nothing lost except some money. =] best of luck

i dont exactly know HOW to change her mind tho

My cousin takes anti depressants and sleep meds.
my mom has bipolar and my brothers show signs of it but it is hereditary so i doubt its a phase
and some of my cousins friends think that she might be scared of me being like my mom.
where i live you do have to be 18 to get on anti depressents without parents.
all you can get here is birth control