I turned sixteen years old about four weeks ago and I have been acting really strangely since then. I feel unhappy most of the time apart from random periods where I feel kind of hyper/over the top happy. I also seem to be losing my temper all the time over the smallest of things (and actually it has been like that for a while now) and getting so frustrated that I almost break down into tears, although nobody has noticed as I don t like crying in front of people. Even on my actual birthday when I should have been genuinely happy I just felt like I was faking it and felt oddly distant from what was going on. I really just wanted to be in my room and alone. I have also put on a bit of weight which is kind of good since I was diagnosed with Diabetes Type 1 in January and I was under six stones at height of five foot but now it is getting slightly too much - I have got a bit of a belly now and my Mum commented on it. I decided to ask this now since I haven t been sleeping well and I have been more irritable, not able to laugh even at stuff I would have found funny before as well as unable to concentrate on revising for my exams and I keep thinking about what would have happened if I died after my diagnosis instead, as I did come very close to death, and what would be the reaction of those I left behind. What is going on with me since I am usually quite a happy person and my friends have commented on me being much sadder and not keen on going out, will it go away?
Hello, Thanking you for writing to Chat Doctor, Definitely it will go away if you should make yourselves to go for change. Every mind should divert but its possible only when we try to help our mind to do that. You should have to try to keep your mind busy so that it can't think even for that behavior and also keep yourself with peoples. Because when you are alone it's possible that your mind again think for that, and it might not good thing at all. I will suggest here to keep yourself busy with persons you love and try to be easy and don't think too much. You should concern a good psychiatrist if problem still there, and you can't divert your mind at your own they will defiantly help you for getting out of that. Hope you will get out of this soon. Take care. Thanks & 