So depressed

[JaceDeanLove]

Hello. I'm a 16 year old male with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type. I'm so depressed.... All my life I'll have to live on this roller coaster through hell. I'll either be really manic, or depressed. When I'm manic, it's not true happiness, and I do stuff which I later regret when I become depressed. My whole life has and always will be like this.

[Alex K]

Hey,
I don't know anything about your disorder, so can't give advice from that perspective... But you're so young, barely out of puberty, and a lot can change, don't despair. Do you talk to professionals/receive treatment? How"s school working out?

[JaceDeanLove]

Hey,
I don't know anything about your disorder, so can't give advice from that perspective... But you're so young, barely out of puberty, and a lot can change, don't despair. Do you talk to professionals/receive treatment? How"s school working out?

I do have a psychiatrist/therapist. Basically, the disorder is schizophrenia and bipolar mixed. I have mania and depression. The schizophrenia causes hallucinations, paranoia, delusions, etc

[Alex K]

You get any meds? Do they help?

[The Valkyrie]

Your life may not always be that way.

There are breakthroughs being made frequently in medicine so never lose hope on that.

Have you talked to anyone about it? Seen a doctor, psychologist?

[Lemonvariable72]

Hello. I'm a 16 year old male with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type. I'm so depressed.... All my life I'll have to live on this roller coaster through hell. I'll either be really manic, or depressed. When I'm manic, it's not true happiness, and I do stuff which I later regret when I become depressed. My whole life has and always will be like this.

And take it from someone with depression and high functioning autism. 16 is the worst fucking time ever.my advice, is get some very good friends and try to have some fun.

[SteelCurtain]

You have some serious hurdles to overcome, and combine that with the hormone cocktail that is assaulting you, and life can seem like it will never get better.

It will. Just listen to the medical professionals in your life. Take your meds, and find the things in life that make you happy and do those things. You will find happiness.

[JaceDeanLove]

You have some serious hurdles to overcome, and combine that with the hormone cocktail that is assaulting you, and life can seem like it will never get better.

It will. Just listen to the medical professionals in your life. Take your meds, and find the things in life that make you happy and do those things. You will find happiness.

Thanks!

[Rev. Rye]

Hello. I'm a 16 year old male with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type. I'm so depressed.... All my life I'll have to live on this roller coaster through hell. I'll either be really manic, or depressed. When I'm manic, it's not true happiness, and I do stuff which I later regret when I become depressed. My whole life has and always will be like this.

Yeah, I don't have schizoaffective disorder, but I do have a combination of OCD (pure-o), Depression, and autism spectrum disorder. It's a real motherfucker, especially the first two. I can really empathise. Are you on any meds? I recently got prescribed Luvox and it's done wonders, especially since I dropped it from 100 mil to 75 mil.

[Angrboda]

I have shizoaffective disorder as well. My main problems are depression and delusions. I've been fighting this stuff for nearly 25 years (in the mental health system). It may seem that things are never going to change because change happens slowly over a long period of time, the depression causes irrational thinking that it won't change, and because of the destruction in your life caused by things like manic episodes. It's frustrating, and many days I just want to give up. However, I can't say things haven't changed over those 25 years. Things do change. For most of the 25 years, I was chronically suicidal because my delusions led me to believe that I needed to kill myself. In 2008 I attempted suicide and lost nine fingers to frostbite as a result of the attempt. That sounds tragic, and perhaps it is. But the important news is that I started an anti-psychotic last winter, and the delusional thinking is much improved. I no longer spend my days chronically suicidal, thinking about how to kill myself. So while it's a hard road, it is a road on which things can get better.