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[quote=Anonymous]When I was away at school and had a major depressive episode, my roommate (who was a friend) couldn't deal with it and decided to avoid me.  She basically moved out to another friend's room without telling me and I ended up even more isolated than if I'd been at home.  I don't blame her, since being stuck with a depressed roommate is a nightmare, but it made a horrible situation worse that I suddenly felt even my friends didn't want to be around me.

FWIW, that was senior year of high school and I happened to be at a boarding school so there was more structure in place than there necessarily will be in college.  I chose to take a gap year (I get that you don't want to force it) and it was the best thing that I could have done and over the course of that year I was able to get back to myself and get off the medication (which I had also not wanted to be on because of side effects, but finally accepted as necessary because I clearly wasn't getting out of the hole by myself).  I still ended up back on medication for part of my freshman and sophomore years of college but I was done with it by junior year and things just got better from there.

I don't have any great advice, other than to let you know that it can be hard and horrible and painful to live through, but I'm here on the other side very glad with how my life has turned out and looking at me now no one has any idea of what I went through as a teen.  
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