Question by EagleGirl: How do you get rid of depression without freaking out your parents?
I’m 15, and I have severe depression. My parents don’t know about anything. I’m a little scared about what I’m going to do next. Does anyone know how I could get help without alerting everyone around me?

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Answer by acoustic rose
i have the same problem. My parents don’t know and it is getting so hard. Be brave… tell them. If you can’t say it out loud write them a note or an email. Don’t make it really serious or dramatic or long if you don’t want to make it a big deal. Just say “Lately I haven’t been feeling good mentally. I get really sad sometimes and I don’t know why. I’d really like to talk to a proffesional or something to see if I have a kind of depression.”
good luck

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Question by cuppycake676: How do I tell my parents that I have depression?
I’ve always thought that I might have it, and I have taken numerous online tests, and they all say I could have moderate to severe depression. I don’t know how to go about telling my parents
Help!

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Answer by ananda
not easy, but all you can do is straight up tell them your depressed and you want help.
thats what i had to tell my parents.
i hope it works out.

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For Parents of Children With Low Self Esteem

For children the development of self-esteem begins at an early age, and the way they feel can vary from one stage of development to another, depending on the circumstances of their lives.

For children with seriously low self-esteem, getting the right help is very important. For parents of children with low self-esteem it is very important to consider how our own behavior can influence their self regard.

Children feel reassured by parents who are calm, warm and loving. It is important to give children reassurance that helps them open up and explain how they feel. It is important to be sensitive when children feel they are not succeeding. Telling them how proud you are of their efforts, how much you think they have achieved, is better than telling them they will surely get in the team next time, or pass the exam next time.

Children will be facing lots of different new experiences of course and should have realistic expectations of their achievement. No child is going to win everything or be top at everything. Most of us don’t get to be top at anything. Most of us are just regular people. Doing something to the best of our ability is what most of us aim for. Success in life is not about being the best. Success is about all sorts of things. Children need to know they are succeeding, so need to know about all the ways in which they can succeed.

It is always a good idea to praise children when they show that they are:

- Being good friends to other children

- Learning to value themselves and others

- Helping younger children as mentors

- Putting all their effort into new challenges

- Learning how to treat other people well

- Learning how to deal with coming second or third, or twenty third

- Learning the difference between good behavior and bad behavior

- Being able to deal with criticism

If children have low self esteem it can be hard for them to explain how they feel. This can be very difficult if they already feel they are failing, and not as good or clever as their friends. Gentle support will help children feel comfortable enough to tell you how they feel.

Children suffering from low self esteem can suffer badly. It is important to recognize signs of low self esteem in children, and to learn how best to help boost their confidence and help them deal with being regular kids and not necessarily top achievers.

Advice and help should be available in most schools, or though your local medical centre. If professional counseling is considered necessary, do listen to your child if they say they don’t get on with the counselor – like all of us it is possible to get on well with some people but not others. This is even more important for children who can find it hard to talk about how they feel to adults they don’t know.

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Answer by drconfused
I think that parents can very much influence low self-esteem in their children..
-to much attention (hounding them constantly, giving them no room to make their mistakes, etc)
-to little attention (neglect will produce underdeveloped concepts of emotion with cause and effect)
-to much emphasis on intelligence and to little on effort – it is common for parents to say constantly to their child “you are smart enough to do anything you want”, but then they don’t instill the importance of effort.. so a child will sail through the early years in school because the concepts are pretty simple, but then when they reach grades when academic learning becomes more complex and they get to a question they find to difficult they think “I am not smart enough to do this” (if they were only given the reinforcement of your smart enough to do anything), but if they are instilled with the principle of effort then when they get to that same difficult problem they think “here is a challenge, let me see if I can overcome it with effort”

To often we either hand things over to our children without giving them concept of value or we don’t hand over enough of the most important thing and thats love by action.

This is not a simple topic to cover without a lot of consideration, I do hope I gave you some food for thought.

And I don’t think all psychiatrists are good for teenagers, but certainly any can be approached for opinion, but they are people as well, all though very learned they may be more geared towards children or adults.

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Question by Robb: How can I get help with my depression without my parents knowing?
I am 17, I have a job making about $ 200 a month. I’ve been slipping deeper and deeper into this depression and I can’t handle it anymore. My parents aren’t understanding, so I can’t ask them for help. I know I am on my moms insurance, so would it be possible to use her insurance to my benefit without her knowing?

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Answer by Donkey Girl
You really should see a doctor. Tell your parents you have some other problem you need to see the doctor about. They aren’t to know any different and your chat with the doctor will be confidential.

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