Very new at this. And a bit nervous.

Hello everyone.   I’m new to the board. I found it looking for some support tonight because my anxiety and depression have been getting steadily worse since year 12 finished about a month and a half ago. Up to now I’ve had a few choice people I could rely on, even if they didn’t exactly know the score. One of my best mates leaves for Europe the day before my birthday this month for a month. Another close friend has just left for a round Australia trip for a year. And my brother is currently overseas and out of reach.   All year I’ve been able to cope because of school getting me out of the house and away from my parents for eight or nine hours a day, and my mentor at school helped a huge amount as well. I’m not ready to get into specifics yet, just that now I’ve lost all of this support, I really need some, and I didn’t know where else to go.   I hope you’re all having a safe Christmas, Jordan

Hi Jordan
Welcome to the forum,I am very glad that you found us and I am sure you will find the support that you are looking for.


It sounds like you are going through a very hard time right now.. When you are ready to talk we will be here for you.

Thank you all for your kind words. I’m still not ready to talk about what’s bothering me. I have been reading the rules again and I thought that I would share some good news with you, because it’s never a good idea to focus on the negative. I recently received my ENTER, a score which is calculated from a number of assessments and exam’s I completed over my year 12 school year. I received a much higher ENTER then I was expecting, and am able to get into my course at the best University at Victoria.

It’s an opportunity that I’m not taking for granted, and am very grateful for.

Thank you all again, it's nice to know that people care.

Merry Christmas.

Jordan

Hi Jordan,

Hope your feeling better, that is brill news about your enter score, Well Done you!

Take care Gillian

Hello all.

Well it’s that time of year again. I’m guessing that Christmas can be a bad time for a lot of people with depression. I’ve been feeling pretty low of late. What’s worse is that my brother isn’t here, and he has for a long time been my unknowing defender from the rest of my family. I have two friends in crisis at the moment, and I have no idea how to support them and keep myself afloat at the same time. My sister left the country for a year today, which is good and bad. Good because she’s the instigator of a lot of yelling and verbal bashings of me, but bad because that means that some of my parents’ nastiness is sidetracked onto her, and now I’m going to be getting the full blast.

I already have because I didn’t cry at the airport. Which seems ridiculous to me. I can’t help the fact that I was upset when my brother left and not her, since he has shown me nothing but love and protection my whole life, and she none of either.

I’m sorry, I know these don’t even compare to issues that other people here are having at the moment, but it’s all adding up and getting to me at the moment and I just needed to get it out. Yesterday was just a horrible day, and it’s getting worse.

I hope you all had good respective Christmas’, or a good day anyway, if you’re of a different religion.

Jordan.

Jordan..I totally agree you have issues that you want to get help and support with and here is the right place

No worries my friend
WE are all here for you ...........

Be Good To Self..................YOU deserve it .......A Better 2008 to you

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