Hey. I know what you mean about the sleeping thing. I sleep 10-12 hours a day and am always tired. I fall asleep during class or on the bus and stuff too. It may be that you're oversleeping, or low on iron, or just plain depressed. If you're on medication for depression or anything else, that might make you tired. Especially if you're on paxil, which also has the side effect of giving you those weird "shocks".

If you're not on medication, maybe you are just depressed. After all, it is winter, and most of the population has undiagnosed sad, which would kick in around this time of year.

Medical diagnoses aside, i'm sure there are a lot of people on this site who know exactly how you feel. It can be really, really hard some days just dragging yourself out of bed in the morning, and tiredness doesn't always have anything to do with it. Depression sucks. It makes a lot of things way harder, and fills your life with meaningless worries and paranoias. But, just the fact that you're on this site talking to people means that it hasn't got the best of you. So don't worry, get help if you can, talk to your doctor about medication if you're on it and think it might be affecting you, and keep posting!

Thanks for yor input


im not on any medication right now.


I am depressed sometimes im 18 im just depressed because im changing im getting older and everything is kind of weird now I look older and im use to other things and socializing with people in other ways its hard to grow up.


Aside from that fact I might have bad sinus effections or something because I can barley keep my eyes open sometimes they just hurt real bad and my head hurts real bad and I forget where I am sometimes.

Depression sucks, I have it they perscribed me meds but I dont take them even though I should, I do feel lost, I really hate this.

Vel: you said your depressed because you getting older, your 18, I would do anything to be 18 again, i'll be 27 in two weeks, almost thirty it my opinion i'm old your not.

Vel and mary,
neither one of you are old. Try and be 51. Blecho!!! My body feels 51, but I can't possibly be that old, I don't feel it. I remember being 18 and feeling so lost. I don't know if you are going through what I did but not only was I concerned about what I was going to do the rest of my life, but I didn't know who I was. I would walk around campus and think or sing - who am i? I even made up a song, but I can't remember it now. I'm too old. I went through that phase almost all the way through my 20's, so see, you both are quite normal.

What I did that helped the most was keep a journal. It's so funny now to go back through them, but sometimes I still feel the way I did back then.

Vel, the eyes hurting is a problem I still have today. It makes shopping difficult because I get so tired, but actually i'm not tired, my eyes are just killing me. I wish I could tell you how to help that problem, but I still have the problem. I've been told it's dry eyes or allergies or whatever.

Make sure to wear very good sunglasses (uv protection, etc.) whenever it is bright outside. Unfortunately that usually means you usually can't wear the fancy ones all young people want. But I still have dreams about the times as a teenager riding in a car when I couldn't see because the sun blinded me. I wasn't smart and get good sunglasses until later. Sheesh, I almost sound like a mommy, but believe me, i'm no mother - just someone old and a little wiser.

I'm mostly writing to mention the face, jaw and neck hurting vel. These are usually caused by stress and tension. You are probably holding your upper body tight because of stress and that will cause pain. I also wouldn't be surprised if you grind your teeth at night. Believe me, you don't want to get tmj like I have. You might want to get one of those night guards that you boil to fit your mouth and wear it while sleeping for a few weeks. I think you can get one at any drugstore.

I do highly recommend that you try and find some sort of relaxation method or whatever. But again, i'm starting to sound like a mother again. I rarely get to tell my two little ones what to do (2 kitty cats), so I have to tell other people what to do. Not really, just kidding, but I am concerned that you do not want to have so much stress and tension in your life if at all possible. Stress causes too many illnesses and painful, stupid things like tmj. I got tmj when I was 28 years old and I know most of it was because I was so tense and stressful all those years before. Now that I am a much more relaxed person, I still have tmj because my joint is now damaged from all the years of popping and cracking. Bummer.

Sorry to waste your time writing this, but surprisingly I do care when I read that young people such as you, vel and mary, are having problems that actually are normal life tribulations. I just want you to know that you are perfectly normal - a nut like the rest of us. :)

blessed holidays...
Carol

p.S. Humor is the best medicine

Wow you have amazing spirit catswold

that made me feel 90x better.

:d

thank god for people like you!


Than k you for your reply very helpful.

Im gonna consider getting myself a journal !

Lethargic or these are symptoms of depression

take care