Family help: Right, i feel really depressed at the moment, well i have been for a while but just latley i’ve been showing it, for many reasons: - Help.com

Tips on being happy! Try these out, maybe it will help your depression

Decide to be a happy person. As Lincoln observed, most people, most of the time, can choose how stressed or happy, how troubled or relaxed they want to be. Choose to be happy.

Practice the Attitude of Gratitude. We all have so much to be grateful for. Just thanking the many people who assist us, encourage us, teach us and open doors for us could take all day!

Take Time. My dog has taught me much about loyalty, about noticing the sights, sounds, and smells in the yard, about being relaxed and about play. Eat when you’re hungry, nap when you need it. Get your ears scratched whenever possible!

Laugh everyday. Hear a joke, tell a joke, laugh at yourself, laugh with your friends and family and co-workers. There are very few medicines as powerful as laughter, and I don’t think you can over-dose, although it is addicting!

Love well. Express your affection, appreciation, friendship and warmth to those around you, and they will almost always respond in the most amazing ways! Be generous–it pays great dividends!

Work hard. This one comes as a bit of a surprise, but there is tremendous satisfaction in being competent, and joy in completing our assigned tasks. One of the great sources of happiness is to do work that is worthy of you, and to do it well.

Learn something new, everyday. To be happy, most of us must also be growing, expanding, learning and challenging ourselves. Read, listen, adapt and stretch to accommodate new ideas and new information.

Use your body as it was designed. Walk and run, stretch, throw things, and lift things. Dance! Exercise is good, mixing up a batch of cookies, or exchanging backrubs. You have a body and it can be either a source of joy, or a source of aches and pains. Your choice.

if your step dad is abusive then your mom needs to get rid of him, or make him get some help on not getting so drunk all the time.

if your dad doesnt want to see you and he left when you were young, then forget him, I wouldnt even consider that a dad, biological or not.

if your in high school, its not to hard, just more or less doing a lot of things you dont want to do (homework). I cant preach much here I skipped HS for the most part, but got my crap together afterward and went to college (WAAAAAAAAY better then highschool because you learn something your actually interested in lol)

at your age I wouldnt even worry about boys, most relationships at that age dont last, and once everyone leaves high school they either move or go to college, so odds of it lasting past that is slim.

and im sorry to hear about your grandpa, but medicine is pretty good these days so have hope. my buddy had a brain tumor behind his eye and they successfully removed it.

and no, nobody wants you to die, it just feels like that sometimes.

things will get better in time, they always do.

oh yea I forgot to say, forget about your aunt and uncles opinion, because it doesnt really matter.

I have a set of aunt/uncle/cousins that feel like they have to try and be better then the rest of the family all the time, and well….nobody really talks to them anymore, nobody likes a snob on a high horse

i know it sounds weired to say things like this but u have to try and use the negative things in life to push u to do the things u really want to do u just have to keep ur head up and know things can only get better