Advice please: Getting confused with my mental health

Originally I started seeing my psychologist for anxiety. I had near constant stress headaches, occasional panic attacks, trouble making decisions and dealing with crowds, felt tense a lot of the time, ect. When school let out for the summer, I was doing a lot better, though every now and then something would get to me again and I’d either start back with the headaches, tension, and on some occasions just another panic attack. When school started up, so did the headaches (incase your thinking this, it’s not my vision, every time the headaches have started seeming more frequent I get my vision checked) and I’m hesitant to take Tylenol or anything for it, as two summer ago I ended up in a bad cycle of constantly taking something for my headaches, because otherwise I’d suffer a bad rebound headache. Now I’m careful to not even take something two days in a row, because there have been other times where the cycle has started again and it takes a bit of time to realize it, and the longer it takes before you stop, the worse the rebound headache is.
More recently my psychologist has said that I might have mild depression, that I was showing a handful of symptoms of it. Constantly tired, un-reactive, apathetic, feeling worthless and hopeless, irritable, negative self talk, ect. I’ve noticed that I’m getting angry at people more. Others have also commented on how I seem constantly tired and un-reactive. Though since I’ve noticed that I’ve been feeling like that, I’ve also noticed that I spend small amounts of time feeling energized, happy, and unfocused, in between longer periods of the depression-y state that seem to last from 3-14 days, while these energized phase are at most 3 or so days. (I haven’t yet talked to my psychologist about these phases yet as the most significant one was after I last talked to her, thus my attention was on them yet)
These happier phases, on occasion, have followed when I have gotten a little buzzed off inhalants, and usually end with me feeling angry/frustrated and sometimes even self-harming a little (something I have been dealing with since May of my sophomore year (I’m currently a senior), there have been good and bad phases with it). Then I end up exhausted, and fall into the depressive state again.

Question: What do you think this could be caused from? Is there anything else that’d having my psychologist know that’d better help me? Anything I should be trying to pay attention to that’ll better get me helped? Or anything else that is worth thinking about and/or considering talking about before I talk to my psychologist again.

 

Sounds like learned behavior to me.

Learn how you came to be in the position you're in.

Hormones are running through your system like rush hour traffic right now. There's an ebb and flow to them, and, they affect the way you think. Your moods will change with the wind.

We've turned being a teenager into being a mental patient on prescription drugs.

We suck.


x

 

I'm not on any meds.

 

you definately have all the signs of anxiety or anxiety disorder, mostly social anxiety, a little bit of generalized anxiety, but when you are going to a public place and feeling overwelmed and like the place is closing in on you, and you just feel your heart beating... its social anxiety.

and a bit of depression, but you could try to find some things that make you happy, some hobbies, shopping for yourself. spend time on yourself.

with anxiety disorder, its totally normal to feel tired all the time, sudden burst of anger, the head-aches, the tension, your panic attacks, etc.

so, when you talk to the doc, talk about anxiety issues, and what the doc can recommend for you to be able to calm down more. if your ok with taking meds, i would just go for a benzo like xanax, klonopin, valium.

and if there is any kind of tramatic experience that you have had in the past, or any kind of behavior or thoughts that you think are not right, let them know about that. there could be something that is triggering the anxiety. sometimes its a disorder, sometimes its because of something that your dealing with or need to deal with.

hope that helps. good luck!