Question by SensesFail<3: What do I do? HELP ME!!?
God I hate it!!!
Im 14, nearly 15, and this past year (since september) have been rotten. I became really depressed and anxious, I stopped going to school, and was later admitted to an Adolescent Phyciatric unit (APU)
While I was there I saved up my anti depressants and took an overdose. So I had to stay there over christmas. When i got out in January, me and my mum got in a big fight and I left the house and i was gonna jump of the bridge in my town, the bridge is about a 3 hour walk from my house. And my mumcouldn’tt find me so she got the police involved and they had to take me tothee hospital where I was later readmittedd to the APU. Im was let out 3 weeks ago. My mum and I have been fighting non stop. Idintt go to school and im really depressed. Im taking, Trazadone, ativan, wellbeautrin and seroquel. Theydon’tt help at all. But my mum is looking for places for me to go, shesconsideredd normal boarding schools, longer “treatment” facility’s (mental ward), or send me back home to England. I live in canada now. But my mum found a “Therapeutic boarding school” In Utah, id have to go for about 10 months, My question is, is it worth it? Or what else can I consider. I live in BC. Has anyone ever been to a boarding school?
Thanks
I suffer from, Borderine personality dissorder, Chronic depression, anxiety, and have really poor sleep

Best answer:

Answer by thehonestlady
Hi Sweetie…yes, I do think that it is worth giving it a try It sounds like this place will be able to help you with everything that is going on and not just treat your “symptoms” with meds.

Right now it is about as bad as it is going to get and you have a choice………get help or not. The not means that you will never have a choice again and it is all over. You DO have your life ahead of you…YOUR CHOICE on how YOU want to live YOUR life I have been in your situation….making my “choice” and I did go back and forth for quite a long time on what my choice would be. I thought, ok…I am done, no more, I am done….then this little voice said “it is not over” or “it can get better”. I DID listen to that little voice and it DID get better. Not everything was easy, and I did go through my share of counselors and professionals…but I kept on going and found the right one who understood ME. Trust me, there are many people out there who do understand where you are coming from and where you have been…and you will find your connecting person and they will help you. I really still don’t know what it was that I connected with with her, but I did. I was just myself, and she understood me and where I was coming from and where I could go 10 years from when I first met her.

She believed in me….something I never felt….then I started to believe in myself. It didn’t matter where I came from or what happened before, it mattered NOW and the FUTURE. I saw what I wanted and that is what I achieved.

Just so you know NOW…I was in the same position as you… making a choice. I am so glad I made the choice to live because I now have 2 beautiful children, a husband who adores me (even though I may be irrational at times lol) a newly built home that I designed, a college degree, and above all happiness. Yes..not every day is filled with lollipops and gum…but it is wonderful…because it is mine and what I created because I believed in myself when no one else would.

Get strong…Utah just may be the place for you

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