Hi, I'm an 18 year old male diagnosed with clinical depression. I believe that this depression is hereditary since both of my parents seem to be the same way as I am. I'm not sure what else I have that's why I came here to seek help.
I was a very outgoing, social, healthy, overall happy and normal child. I had many interests and was very active in many sports. I was always very good in school, getting great grades and respect from all of my teachers. I've been told through out the years that I am very intelligent,smart,mature, well manured, friendly, nice, ect. As I got older however, I gradually lost interest in everything including all of the sports that I played and became very isolated and depressed.
I started skipping school in 7th grade missing literally half the year every year until 10th grade when I had a probation officer monitoring my attendance and was told if I don't go, I'll be put in probation. So after the first semester of 10th grade I dropped out of school, and received my GED.
I lost all my friends because of this. I never socialized while I was going to school for the period of time that I was constantly skipping school. So I resorted to playing video games and started listening to angry and depressing music. I started wearing black and band shirts and therefore was outcasted in the school which might have been part of why I didn't want to socialize. I've had many crushes but was never confident to do anything more about them.
I eventually got a job at 17 where the majority of the workers were in my age group. I had problems adjusting, everyone wanted me to socialize with them but I was in my own protective shell. I was taking anxiety meds ( I also have bad anxiety, including social anxiety) and eventually started socializing, being myself, joked around, ect and everyone started liking me. I made friends easily and what not and then came along a new girl that seemed very interested in me. She was very attractive, intelligent, nice, ect. To some it up I was intoxicated over the mere thought of her, and I started to fall for her hard. To save all the details, she wasn't who I thought she was and she basically tore my heart out. I have never felt this heartbreaking feeling so overwhelming that I wanted to kill myself. I started drinking very heavily because of this. I was know as the drunk/alcoholic at work after I broke out of my shell because I had a friend at work that I would buy alcohol from weekly, hence the label. As time progressed, I stopped taking all of my meds, started to smoke cigarettes, started to smoke marijuana, and drank heavily.
As of now I have completely stopped smoking pot, I drink rarely, and I'm up to almost a pack a day of cigarettes. I don't exercise anymore or socialize (I am literally in contact with no one except for my parents). I literally just go to work, come home and play video games or watch Tv/movies, go to sleep, and repeat. I am always tired regardless of how much sleep I get, I have no appetite, I have a porn/ masturbation addiction, I feel useless, have no confidence, low self esteem, never happy. I think that I have symptoms of the following personality disorders: Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizophrenia. I know I have written alot but I just wanted to put in some background information to see if anyone can give an assumption as to why I am this way.