I'm a fifteen year old girl, who is feeling VERY messed up.
Ive been having really weird things happen to me for I guess a few months. Firstly, I struggle with sleep. I could be tired to the point of tears, yet as soon as I get to bed I find it imposible to sleep. Or, I have really vivid, and strange nightmares. Or, I sleep, but wake after a few hours, tired, but unable to go back to sleep.
Secondly, I am very irritable a lot of the time. I snap at the tiniest thing (my dad has a cold, he coughs... I shout at him). Its really out of character for me as Im normally a very calm person.
I also find it hard to concentrate. I had a spanish spelling test last week. I knew all my words, yet as soon as the time started my mind went blank. The same has happened in maths, science and history.
Also, recently, I've foudn myself seeing and hearing things. Like, I was in my room, and saw spiders on my wall. I turned to look directly at it and saw nothing, I turned round and saw them scuttle off, but there was nothing there. I also heard voices behind me at school on the stairs, I turned round to a deserted staircase.
Finally, I have extreme mood swings. When I say extreme, I mean extreme. I can go from on top of the world, to suicidal and back in the space of 30 minutes. This is really scaring me as there so random and so extreme. Like, I can be sat and feel fine then its like a switch is flicked and I'm thinking of ways to hurt myself. Then another switch is flicked and I'm ecsatic.
I tried talking to my friends, but they all brushed it off as 'normal ... for you' but I know this ISNT normal. I talked to my mentor and she's arranged for me to see the school nurse, I havent seen the nurse yet but my mentor thinks its just 'teenage hormones'.
Im really confused, and really scared. I think I'm going mad. I just wish someone would listen to me; without brushing everything off as 'hormones'.