I am a 15 year old male from Canada and I have been experiencing a lot of mental troubles starting over the past two years. What started as what I think is mild anxiety has turned into a depression that now makes me physically sick. It has made me unable to do my schoolwork and it has affected my performance for my sports. In my situation I am unable to ask anyone for help so I don’t know what exactly is going on with me or what to do about it. I have no close friends to talk to and I don’t see anyone outside of school or sports. I have a lot of friends and I’m not socially awkward, however none of them are very close to me and I think it is because of the way I struggle mentally. I am not close with my family either and I have endured some tough mental abuse and occasional physical altercations with my family. My father struggles with mental health and gets the help he needs for it, I need the same but I don’t know how to get it.

To sum things up I constantly feel sad, tired, lonely, angry, frustrated, and confused. I can’t sleep and I have a hard time eating as much as I’d like to. I can’t complete my school work because I am too anxious or too sad to do it and my performance in my sports are also affected by anxiety and sadness. My mind is constantly running and jumping from worries to fears to sadness and anger and it can be hard to concentrate. I have started to throw up on multiple occasions because of how I feel mentally and have gotten physically sick from it. I don’t actually know what’s wrong because I don’t have anyone to tell or to go to for help.

Maybe one of you have experienced or know how to deal with what is going on. Thank you for reading.