<p>let's just say recently i haven't been too happy, and it's been affecting my education .. a bit, so far this month i've missed 4 days of school due to "depression" and i've gone to the councelor's office (for non-educational related things alot), so i kinda have lower grades than i did last semester. </p>
<p>of course, they're still better than the grades i got freshmen year, but i dont know ... it's complicated, and i was wondering if there was some way i could make it known to the colleges i apply to in the future, cause i have seen a doctor ...</p>
<p>Yeah. Most colleges have a "special circumstances" box somewhere in application. Fill out and mention your depression. If your guidance counselor is knowledgeable, as her/him...</p>
<p>yeah, I moved from CT to socal, lost all friends (obviously), experienced hard core culture shock... all during freshman year. I was really depressed and my grades really suffered also. Good thing this was freshman year. Is there anything I should/can say on the app?</p>
<p>EDIT: the ER? why? did you hurt yourself because of depression or something?</p>
<p>um apparently i said something to my best friend that sounded like i was "suicidal" (like i was gonna kill myself, not anyone else), and she apparently told a counselor at school, who called my parents, who told them to take me to the E.R</p>
<p>i just searched clinical depression on the internet, and i seem to have many of the symptoms. i'm really scared because my parents aren't the type to believe me. </p>
<p>in terms of college though, doesn't depression sound too much like ADD? like just an excuse?</p>
<p>join a sport or like an activity...studies have shown that people who are in constant contact with others tend to have much lower depression rates</p>
<p>also try exercising..if the depression is hormonal, that can help</p>
<p>Wouldn't the special circumstances just make colleges think you're making up excuses for low grades? I was depressed all through freshman year and I have the doctor's note to prove it, but I'm not putting it down because I think they'll just assume I didn't try hard enough.</p>
<p>i read this article a while ago how colleges don't want depressed kids because the person might commit suicide at the college and they don't want to get sued. so i wouldnt put down anything about your depression.</p>
<p>What is happening to today's society? Every time someone is down they scream insanity or depression. Honestly, I don't think there's such thing as true depression unless it's caused by something physical, such as chemical imbalances in your body. </p>
<p>Don't make excuses. Just do better next time.</p>
<p>Go to a psychiatrist or a counselor (yes I hate them too). Depression is a chemical imbalance, not a mood. If there is no obvious reason for it, and it lasts for weeks or months, please seek help!</p>
<p>its not like people choose to be depressed. well, i think some do but for people with real depression, not ones who are faking for sympathy/attention, they would much rather be happy than how they are right now. if you've never been depressed you can't really understand it.
i do think the word depressed is very much overused but its not all because of a chemical problem. sometimes events are just so continually overwhelming and hopeless and you just really can't understand the world. i think it also has to do with personality, probably introverts are alot more likely to get it than extroverts.
just like happy people can't understand why depressed people are depressed, in the same way depressed people can't understand why happy people are so happy.</p>
<p>What if you had depression but your grades didn't drop? I know someone who had depression, but her grades didn't really drop at all. Instead, they improved a bit. It was mostly because she lost all of her friends from moving and had a difficult time adjusting than usual, and it was hard to get to know her, so she didn't hang out as much.</p>
<p>go to your doctor, and tell him/her. tell them and they will understand,</p>
<p>I suffer from a form of depression, its panic attacks and they are really bad. Feels like I am having a heart attack.. I have to take a pill to stop it, its not a major pill, not like xanax, but it helps me and they may help you.</p>
<p>Teenage depressions are healed 80% of the time by talking to that girl you are depressing about.</p>
<p>Or, you could go and run 5 miles and see if you still have any oxygen left to care about this insignificant crap.</p>
<p>But please, dammit, no bloody chemicals. I'm shocked to see how many people screw themselves up by taking some inorganic crap to heal their depression.</p>
<p>I ya haven't experienced it then ya dont know.</p>
<p>In my situation, I would wake up from my sleep with the most extreme crushing chest pains, or id go running and id get them, Id go short of breath and all other types of things. It was awful and I was only 17 when it started, same age as my father and same as his father.</p>
<p>so I am 17 and feel like I am having multiple heart attacks a day, though i go to my doctor, and the 3 different cardiologists and I have the attack while im in his office, but my heart and entire system is 100%. </p>
<p>or maybe the high number of times Ive gone to the emergency room because I thought I was actually going to die.</p>
<p>Like I said untill you have delt with it, sthu. and you don't get depression from a girl, you get it because it is a chemical imbalance and you should thank god you weren't given such a sometimes debilitating condition.</p>
<p>Notice I said 80%.
It just ****es me off when people cry and go to depression when they get B in class, have problems with a girl, or feel that no one likes them.</p>
<p>Hell, people get their hands cut off, their parents die or divorce, they have to support themselves from age of 14 and they are happy and encouraging.</p>
<p>Sometimes it really <em>physiologically</em> sucks like in your case, but again, most of the times it's people b***ng for some irrelevant cause.</p>