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Suicidal ideation in a 'tween -- anyone seen something like this?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 375771" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Yeah, I had suicidal thoughts as young as him. I also have a mood disorder although I didn't know it at the time. Nothing really bad was going on for me either, but I could never control my moods. Sometimes I just got depressed for no reason at all and it could last for up to a year and it seems the only way out is to die. You don't REALLY want to die...you want to feel better. I don't know if this is helpful, but I do hope you get your dear son some help. There are good medications that can help pull him out of this. In a depression, I would have some scary thoughts, but medications have held the depression at bay for me for a very long time.</p><p></p><p>Suggestion: Clinical depression is a PHYSICAL disorder. It is soooooooo unhelpful to hear "But your life is good" "But we love you" "You need to change your attitude" "Just snap out of it" "But you have so much to look foward to." Depressed people know this, but still can't get rid of the horrible feeling of depression. I'm in a group and all of us have mood disorders (and some have other stuff too). We just recently were talking about how our parents, when we were kids, would get annoyed with us and try to snap us out of our funk, as if we COULD. in my opinion it's the worst thing you can do. It always made me feel ashamed. Anxiety, which I also have, is far easier to treat then depression (although they often go together). While anxiety can be very successfully treated with positive therapy, it doesn't work for clinical depression. At least, not for anyone I know who ever had it. Anxiety/depression are two very different disorders, even though they can co-exist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 375771, member: 1550"] Yeah, I had suicidal thoughts as young as him. I also have a mood disorder although I didn't know it at the time. Nothing really bad was going on for me either, but I could never control my moods. Sometimes I just got depressed for no reason at all and it could last for up to a year and it seems the only way out is to die. You don't REALLY want to die...you want to feel better. I don't know if this is helpful, but I do hope you get your dear son some help. There are good medications that can help pull him out of this. In a depression, I would have some scary thoughts, but medications have held the depression at bay for me for a very long time. Suggestion: Clinical depression is a PHYSICAL disorder. It is soooooooo unhelpful to hear "But your life is good" "But we love you" "You need to change your attitude" "Just snap out of it" "But you have so much to look foward to." Depressed people know this, but still can't get rid of the horrible feeling of depression. I'm in a group and all of us have mood disorders (and some have other stuff too). We just recently were talking about how our parents, when we were kids, would get annoyed with us and try to snap us out of our funk, as if we COULD. in my opinion it's the worst thing you can do. It always made me feel ashamed. Anxiety, which I also have, is far easier to treat then depression (although they often go together). While anxiety can be very successfully treated with positive therapy, it doesn't work for clinical depression. At least, not for anyone I know who ever had it. Anxiety/depression are two very different disorders, even though they can co-exist. [/QUOTE]
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