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Confused Sep 07, 2019 at 05:27 AM
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I am 17 years old and a Humanities and Social Sciences 11th grade student. I was diagnosed with severe depression last September 2018 and has been taking anti-depressants and antipsychotics to make me sleep every night. I was suspended from school because I verbally abused and attacked one of my classmates when I was on 10th grade. The teachers only let me pass the grade because they knew of my illness. With one of my older sister's help, I was able to enroll in a good private school for my senior year. I actually didn't have any motivation to go and felt like I'm still not prepared to return to school. But I was motivated due to the great impression the school (which is a university) has left on me.

My illness was a bit aggravated when my mother and sister had a big fight and my brother was hospitalized due to a panic attack. And I noticed it got worse when our plans to move out into a different house was cancelled, and I also stopped going back to the doctor because my mother had enough of accompanying me, saying that the people there are "crazy" and she's tired being around those people. It happened prior two months before classes started.

Then I had continuous relapses of my illness. But this time it got worse. I went to another hospital for a second opinion. The initial diagnosis was Bipolar Disorder vs. Borderline Personality Disorder. I stopped to rest for a month prior to that with the advise of my school counselor. Recently it was finalized to be BPD. I was overwhelmed with the diagnosis. My episodes got worse and more frequent. By episodes I mean sort of "panic attacks" and sudden fits of rage, most likely to happen at school. I finally decided that maybe I should stop for this school year, since it's not helping my mental state right now. I told my counselor and she told me I should tell my parents first. I did, but my father could care less and my mother wasn't agreeable. I need to hear your opinions about this. I'm really being torn here...
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Hello Haneul Jang: Thank you for bringing your concern here to PC. I see this is your first post. So... welcome to Psych Central. Here's a link to the BPD forum, here on PC, just in case you haven't already found it:

https://psychcentralforums.com/borde...lity-disorder/

You may also find the depression forum & the bipolar forum to be of interest:

https://psychcentralforums.com/depression/

https://psychcentralforums.com/bipolar/

You wrote that you need to hear opinions with regard to stopping school for this year since it's not helping your mental state right now. I'm not sure how useful anything I might write here can be. My personal opinion is this is really something you probably need to be talking through with a counselor or therapist of some sort.

From what you wrote it sounds as though you've been seen by a couple of different doctors. Plus you have a school counselor. However it doesn't sound as though you're seeing a psychologist or mental health therapist on a regular basis. And since you've had all of this mental-health-related difficulty, it seems to me seeing a psychologist or therapist on a regular basis would be crucial. And it would be with that person that you would want to come to a conclusion regarding whether or not to continue with school this year.

I don't think I, or anyone else here on PC, is going to know enough about you to offer any really useful advice. With all of that said, though, is there any possibility of you completing your studies on-line as an alternative? Personally I would hate to see you stop school this year if it isn't absolutely necessary. However if school is aggravating your mental health status & you can't get any more & better help than you've had, perhaps stopping is something to consider.

Here are links to 7 articles, from Psych Central's archives, that (hopefully) may be of at least some small help:

Techniques for Teens: How to Cope with Your Emotions

8 Tips for Teenage Depression

https://blogs.psychcentral.com/blog/...lls-for-teens/

https://psychcentral.com/lib/top-10-...-habits/?all=1

https://psychcentral.com/lib/stress-...dium=popular17

https://psychcentral.com/disorders/b...ng-with/?all=1

https://psychcentral.com/blog/6-gift...lity-disorder/

I hope you find PC to be of benefit.

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Hi. Looking back over a lifetime of depression and anxiety, which started at age 4, I regret that I didn't do enough as a teenager to get the care I needed. I had a psych eval as part of a learning disability assessment, and I "failed" it. My mother said that the report was wrong and my dad said, "no child of mine is gonna see a shrink." I wish I had taken a stand to get the help that I needed then.

Does your counselor support your decision to take a year off? Is this a school counselor (helps navigate academics and post graduation plans) or a mental health counselor? What will you do during the year? If you take time off, it would be best if you had some structured mental health care. Does the hospital where you got the second opinion offer any partial hospitalization program or intensive therapy?

If my teen came to me saying they wanted to take a year off because of mental illness I would want to know what the plan for support and recovery was. I would be very nervous if my teen said they just wanted to take a year off and get better by themselves.
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