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Originally Posted by look 171

Not sure what's going on but I wish your family member recover from this soon.

I will start, my younger boy, 15 will be 16 in a few months is struggling with what I think is mild case of low self esteem or maybe mild case of depression due to lack of friends and getting cut from the volleyball team which he wanted so much to be part of, like him older brother. Covid really fook him up with growth socially. He's now attends high school without knowing too many people from his home school. The other day, I was bothering him and he blew up, screamed at me and came crying within a min or two hugging me asking for forgiveness and realized he has taken our his anger and frustration out on me. What bother me the most was what he said,"My life, I am just crawling along daily and there's no end to this." Its been eating into me every time I see him. We aren't sure if we need profession help yet. My fear with that is once they seek help, there's a shadow hanging over him knowing something is wrong with him. Its very difficult to recover from that once they are labeled.

I remember it being VERY rough to be a teen. I didn't click with most kids. I usually had 1 or 2 good friends and a few folks that were friendly to chat with in school, but not a big group of friends or accepted by most. I remember depression at times. College was better. It seemed to me that college was MUCH less cliquey. I still wasn't popular, but I had a group of friends. Post college and work got even better. Hopefully, your son is just going through a rough patch, and things improve greatly for me.

I'm sure being a teen is at least as hard or harder today with social media, or maybe it's just different. It sure felt pretty rough to me back then. I never saw professional help, but I don't know that it wouldn't have helped. Maybe, maybe not.

Good luck with and to your son.