Childhood depression?

Yesterday I woke up feeling very groggy. I went to pets at home to get some supplies I was running out of for the guinea pigs, I came home and played with them while Paul cleaned the cage out and then I felt really tired so I had a nap. I woke from my nap feeling much worse. Sore throat, headache and blocked nose. And I’m so cold. This isn’t good. 

I’m working extra this morning for double time but I really didn’t sleep well & I have a sore throat, ear ache and still feel very cold 🙁 GREAT. 

I haven’t really been doing much thinking over the weekend. Although because I have been reading my old entries I got to thinking about why I suffer with depression and when I had possibly had it for the first time and it suddenly hit me than when I was younger in high school I was bullied and around the same time I was also off school a lot with chronic fatigue or ME the doctors thought it might have been. But looking back I can see I was depressed. How the hell did doctors not pick up on my feelings? Was it not a big deal in kids 15 years ago like it is now?

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May 6, 2012

now, i’m afraid it has more to do with med pushing than anything. teens go through the usual angst and all that, so it’s hard to say what is actual depression versus ‘normal’ unless they obviously become suicidal or withdraw, isolate, etc. i had depression/ptsd/anxiety as young as 5 years old, but no one picked up on anything until i was 13 when i started cutting…meds didn’t help.