Hi. I'm a sixteen year old male and I don't know if i'm depressed or not. I think I show some symptoms but I get the feeling it might be something else so I decided to ask someone here.

I think I have a huge lack of energy. I can get ten hours of sleep at night but look and feel like i'm operating on four. Also, I move really slowly. I move slow, talk slow, think and act slow, everything. I have trouble concentrating and paying attention, people have to tell me things about three times before I finally understand and recieve them. I feel like one of the engines in my brain burned out or something.

I can't think logically or multi-task. No sense of direction either. I also can't follow directions, when someone gives me directions to follow I get confused and start feeling lost. Everything confuses me now, I don't really think I understand anything anymore. My memory is terrible too. I can't remember half my friends' names, and i've known most of them since at least sixth grade.

This is a big concern of mine, because I feel like it really impairs my future. I've tried to get a few jobs since I started developing this problem (around 7th grade), but I haven't been able to hold any of them because i'm just unable to help out or do anything. I always mess things up and do the wrong things because I can't think right. This thing makes me feel isolated too, like i'm a million miles away from all my peers. I've got a few friends, but they're nothing like me. They all have so much energy, even the saddest and slowest friends I have are light years ahead of me. When we're walking together my friends have to stop constantly so I can catch up.

Are there other people like this out there? I'm not the only one, am i? Am I depressed or do I have some kind of brain disease? Please help me.

By the way, it took me 2 1/2 hours to write this.