New School Blues
I just moved from my home for six years and there is a month before school starts. I am uncontrolably nervous and alot of times extremely depessed about leaving my old buds. I've actually thought about killing myself once not with much ambition and I don't think I would ever actually bring myself to do this but I'm just scared about my future. I feel like it's just an entire new set of peole I have nothing in common with and I a so afraid of being the outcast as I was the first time I moved. I was beat up everyday and emotionaly really heart. I'm so afraid of this happening again and I don't know how to handle it. There is no way I could possibly go to counling because of my parents they just tell me that it's just a little nervousness I'm taking too seriously but I'm really scared. Please help!
ADVISOR REPLIES:
Let me first start by saying that suicide is not the answer at all! You said that you don't have anything in common w/ these new people but if you don't know them and their personalities, then how do you know you don't have anything in common with them? Act like yourself during school- sounds cheezy but that is really the truth. People should like you for your own personality. If you got beat up everyday after school then I hope you have learned that keeping your mouth shut about such a matter is never a good idea. Whether it may be assault or harassment, someone of authority should have been notified about this behavior immediately or else your rights as a person would be violated and remain that way. I know that these kids at your old school probably lowered your self-confidence along with hurting your emotions but you have to remember that, every school isn't the same. Life is really 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it, so make your reaction a good one! I hope everything works out for you.
Modern Teen Advisor,-
Em
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