how can i stop being depressed?

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okay. im only 13 but was sexually assualted when i was 12 at a friends house on new years eve. {it was one of her dads friend} im really depressed because i know my parents like my brother more than me because he hardly gets into trouble and i do. like if im suppose to do the dishes and i forget i get yelled at and that really upsets me. but when my brother forgets to do the dishes he doesn't get yelled at. why is that? i mean my parents notice and everything but they don't do anything to cheer me up when im upset. they just yell at me even more and i start getting an attitude because of it. im seeing a counseler but she doesn't do anything for me. i hate my life. right now im at the point where my parents and family are the enemies. i used to love them with all of my heart but now i don't im beginning to hate them. i can't trust anyone but my best friends but she alwayz cares about her boyfriend instead of me. what should i do to help stop the depression and hurt? i really need help.

Answers:
I'm sorry that happened. Did you tell your parents about the sexual assault and then they started treating you badly? I think sometimes parents can't accept how horrible people in the world really can be, because they are afraid of what it will mean for them - what it will mean they'll have to do to help you. So they take it out on you instead. The sad thing about sexual assault, is that unless you've got a video tape of the person assaulting you, showing their driver's license or something to prove that it is them, someone is going to claim you are lying. That doesn't matter. You know what you know, and that is all that counts. And parents aren't perfect. I bet years from now they will be apologizing to you for acting the way they are acting now. Is there anyone else you can talk to?

Something that I've realized growing up is that you are as good as you believe yourself to be. If you believe that you are above this nonsense that is happening to you, other people will to. You will in fact BE above it. Don't lower yourself to anyone elses level. They are making a mistake in treating you this way, and you can show them that by believing in yourself.

You can email me if you want. I don't check it THAT often, but I will respond. No one should be without help in this situation. I know how it is to be a teenage girl, and it is not a pretty world out there. And that's coming from someone who had it good.

Wow I was just going to say take b12 and b6, but you need to get yourself in for counseling. Find a better counselor, the one your with now obviously isn't helping you.

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