ssucb2010 asked:


I was researching stuff about my cat when I came across a yahoo answers question that an unmotivated 16 year old left, wanting to know what was wrong with him/her… and others replied saying he/she may be depressed, so I was wondering if I could possibly be depressed?

I’m a 20 year old (female) college student at UC Berkeley. I don’t have much friends socially, but do have a lot of friends that I meet up with only if I need to study or something. So I don’t go out and socialize much, but it’s more cuz I don’t have any friends and don’t wanna go to a party by myself. When I go home, I go out a lot more. My biggest concern is that I have a lot of trouble concentrating and lack motivation. A lot of the times I just want to watch tv, go online, or play with my cat/dogs. I usually don’t feel motivated to study or do HW until 10pm the night before and so I end up cramming. I want to go home all the time, and I do get home sick, but I feel like it’s something more serious than that. Sometimes after I make a mistake or get bad results on my exam, I do think in my head that I’m a bad person and need to make myself more useful. Also, even on days that I get a good amount of sleep, I still feel physically drained… most of my stress stems from money and college loans and not knowing what I’m gonna do after I graduate. Also has a lot to do with my mom and how she wants me to do well in school, but I’m not performing at the level that I should be. I feel like I can never do any better even if I did study, just because I have a lot of trouble concentrating. When I read a physics problem, I have to reread it 10 times before I can understand it cuz I can’t concentrate. Most of the time, I’m thinking about other things in my head, like if I’m out studying with friends and we read over a question, I always wonder about the most randomest things instead of concentrating on reading the question. I’m not on drugs and only drink alcohol like once a month… sometimes I do feel lonely, and I always wait til others invite me out… like I have a fear of rejection or something… so could I be mildy depressed or if I’m not, am I in danger of being depressed?
I also wanted to add that even when I’m home, I can’t concentrate on school work. Concentrating seems to be more of a problem when I’m at home. I have better luck studying when I’m in Berkeley, even if it’s minimal.

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Jenn S asked:


Hi everyone, I am a 3rd year medical student facing a lot of issues. The other day, I found out my father was having an affair with another woman and totally ignoring his wife and kids. I confronted him and the other woman and we are not speaking. He borrowed money from me to pay his bills and ended up taking this woman to a beach and spending the money on her while I’m down here passing out on patients from the lack of food.

I’m taking an online class as well to help pay for medical school with the extra loan money, and it’s tiresome especially since I’m in my surgery rotation. By the time I get home, I’m too EXHAUSTED to do anything but sleep. I weigh only 95 pounds from the lack of eating. Plus, it seems like everyone at work gives me all the surgeries to assist simply because I’m a nice person.

Gosh, I feel like giving up…I honestly don’t feel like going on anymore. I have no family, friends, or a significant other to turn to, hence my posting on yahoo answers. I’m tired of crying all the time despite praying and trying so hard to succeed. How can I go about handling these issues? I’m on the verge of a breakdown….please no rude answers.

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Question Queen on Royal Throne! asked:


I have a college degree BA in Spanish, but still not fluent since they taught more ANCIENT literature than grammar conversation. I graduated in Aug. 2006 haven’t had much opportunity to study my Spanish or start on any new languages because of many crises in my life. I haven’t been employed since graduation, either. Been DYING for work, but I can only do jobs that won’t exceed my mental limitations give me an anxiety attack, then I get fired. That almost happened to me before graduation, when I was doing a federal work-study job through the school’s financial aid. My supervisor threatened to fire me, but luckily he didn’t. Before that, I worked a temp service job for 1 day, I have trouble standing on my feet for over 20 min., I had to struggle for 8 hrs. That wasn’t the reason why the woman fired me. She fired me because she overheard someone ask me why I twitch my face so much, I told her I have Tourette’s, the supervisor overheard it misunderstood what I said tried to accuse me of saying I have seizures, which I didn’t say. they told me they had to fire me because they couldn’t have anyone like that working for them.

Between Aug. 2006-April 2007, I tried to go to translation school @ New York University School of Continuing Professional Studies. Before I knew it, these people had me paying them $125/week to stay with them. They didn’t care about my SSI Social Security check coming late, they threw me out cold turkey. So, they put me in a mental health shelter gave me a false diagnosis had me go to these stupid, elementary school-like day programs that I KNOW I was too advanced for. they had me on the wrong meds, they wouldn’t let me work nor go to school.

Back in 2005 I went through Hurricane Katrina, but that was before graduation, but that experience the aftermath affected my grades. I could’ve graduated with a higher GPA earlier.

I suffer OCD, anxiety, depression, Tourette’s, I had 2 strokes @ age 5. In New York, they tried to say I was Bipolar put me on Depakote FORCED me against my will to take it under staff supervision, I got up to 304 lbs. @ the most.

I feel like the symptoms of my disorders the way people discriminate against treat me, is what caused a hold-back in my life. My depression OCD have been getting worse worse, the meds don’t help. I stay @ home try to study my Spanish independently, but I can’t because I’m always distracted by the unwanted, intrusive thoughts.

I feel like my desired career as a multilingual translator is gone because of me feeling behind. I have to start my Spanish from scratch. But I can’t concentrate or focus clearly.

I’m still single with no kids, my credit score probably is the lowest of the low, my student loan other debts are rocket high. I get anxiety attacks every day because I feel like all my daily tasks can’t be completed, even though I’m not working. I’m talking about tasks, like handling phone business calls or internet business e-mails, searching for jobs online or in person, cleaning up around the house, etc. I feel stuck in a ditch can’t get out.

What’s strange is, I may have a degree, but I don’t have many skills or much work experience, employers refuse to hire me because they think I’m retarded because of my obvious, uncontrollable anxiety that I can’t hide. I always have fear of failing the interview or being negatively judged.

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