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writes:I feel really depressed, I am on holidays at my dad's and the only kids I know up here are two girls who when we first met, got along really well but now I feel they only talk to me when they have to because they are friends of the family. I took a survey on Beyond blue and I scored a 32. I don't know what to do. I'm still up here for 3 weeks I don't really feel comfortable talking to my dad about who should I talk to?
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reader, Tisha-1  +, writes (16 January 2009):
 Sorry to hear you're feeling so depressed. Look, you don't seem to know anybody and you only have 3 weeks to go till you leave. So why not do a project for your Dad? A make yourself useful kind of project, like painting a room or the porch or whatever. Detail his car. Build something. Take up carving. Learn a new sport, practice one you know already.
The idea is to give yourself a purpose, something to get up for every day, get you out of the house a bit and when your 3 weeks are over, you'll have something you can look back on and say, "I accomplished that."
I don't see you having anything to lose and it will give you a reason to get out of the house and talk to other people at the store or wherever the project might take you.
Girls are funny at your age, I remember getting embarassed really easily and then behaving like a total idiot because I didn't know what to do with myself. So I would just treat them as they hadn't been acting weird. Be yourself and be natural, don't try too hard and don't let them make you feel badly about yourself.
So: get a project started and accomplished, be yourself and hold your head up high.
Good luck. And do you have any idea how many adults are jealous of you, being able to enjoy a long period of time with no responsibilites hanging over their head ruining their vacations? Most of us!!!
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reader, anonymous, writes (16 January 2009): That's the thing though its at the pool that the girls don't really talk to me like they are embarrassed of me though while our family and theirs went camping they talked to me until like 2:00 in the morning i cant figure it out
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reader, SirenaBlusera  +, writes (16 January 2009):
 I see that you're in Australia. The weather is really beautiful there. Man, I'm jealous! What can you do outdoors? Is there anywhere that you can go to swim? What other sorts of thing can you do outdoors?
Call the other girls and invite them to do something fun, perhaps they'd be game for it after all.
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reader, Ask JenniHearts  +, writes (15 January 2009):
 do what i do. make friends. go to a mall or the movies or to an arcade. when im bored i write another chapter to my stories.
hope this helps
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