My therapist told me I [18M] have depression after two sessions, I suspected that I had depression but never really thought about it. Now let me tell you why my parents are forcing me to go to therapy.
I’m a senior in high school with a lot of studying left to do and a lot of stress, my girlfriend of 7 months broke up with me on February 2nd but I’m still so sad and angry and depressed about it.
So Tuesday night I woke up at 1:30 AM very stressed and having trouble breathing so I got dressed and stole my mom’s car and went out thinking that I’d be better off dead. I drove around till 8 AM thinking if I should kill myself but the only thing stopping was the thought of my parents finding out I died. Around 8:00 my parents started calling me but I didn’t answer for some reason ( I was super sleep deprived) I started driving home stressing about the amount of yelling and shaming I’d be welcomed with. But when I got home the police were there, they started asking me all these questions about drugs and alcohol and where I went. I told them everything which wasn’t a lot since all I did was drive around town for hours. Then my parents sat down with me and were super calm and almost happy that I came back, they asked why I left and I told them it was because of school stress only (they don’t know about my ex-girlfriend). They decided to send me to a therapist which I didn’t want at all. I feel weak when I talk about my feelings in-front of people (non anonymously) so I almost didn’t say anything the whole two sessions, so I’m knida unsure about how she decides that I have depression. I wrote this because I wanted to talk about what happened anonymously without people judging me.