Question by Drew L: How can I overcome this anxiety and depression?
I am a 15 year old boy who lives in Buffalo, NY. I always get extremely anxious around this time of the year until spring. I think it may be due to SAD.

When it started, it was just anxiety about being sick, uncomfortable, and vomiting. Now, however I not only have those fears, which I have learned to cope with by thinking “relax, it’s only anxiety”, but now, I have a fear of the anxiety itself, which is always causing me to be uncomfortable with stomach pains.

Aside from the anxiety, which is just as bad, if not worse, is the depression. And there is not one exact cause, besides winter and anxiety itself. I hate the winter because in the summer, I can run around outside, and hang with my friends in the warm, and play sports and talk to girls. In the winter, nobody can hang out outside, and we can’t walk around finding people and girls to talk to. And it just seems like I can’t have fun in the winter. And When I think of the summer to come, it helps until i realize that winter will roll around soon enough again next year. Also, I love warm weather and can’t stand the cold.

Another thing that upsets me is the thought that I am in 10th grade. I have this summer, and next summer, and half of the next summer until my I won’t be able to run around and hang in the summer anymore, since I will be a grown man in college.

Going away to college also really upsets me. When I go to college, I realize that I will lose all my friends in my grade because they will all go to different colleges, and the kids younger than me would be too hard to keep in touch wwith, and they would move even farther away in a year.

Here is also a reason, that makes me feel crazy to admit because even I know it’s crazy. I seem to fall hard and fast for girls I barely know. It has happened in the past, but this time is the worse. There is a girl that I met maybe two times in person, and it was a five minute period each time. I thought she was very pretty, but she had a boyfriend and moved to Hawaii. I talked to her through myspace and got her cell phone number, and we text each other a lot and sometimes call each other. She says she is moving back to Buffalo this summer, and I can not wait. However, what if she doesn’t? I would be crushed. I find that when she can not text or gets gounded from her phone, I become sad. And we recently told eachother that we like each other a lot. I would go as far as to say I would like to spend my life with her. But she is a year younger than me, and I am worried that in a year or two when I go to college, I will lose touch with her. We could try to make it work though. I know that this is all crazy, but I also know I need help.

Best answer:

Answer by Dragon
Hi Dear

You have made your world very small revolving round this dream girl.
Expand your world, Live in this real world. The real world is much more than just the girl. If it is meant to be you will definitely get this girl and nobody on this earth could stop it from happening

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