I've been feeling like crap recently. I just feel like everything that goes wrong is my fault. It's almost as if there's a voice inside my head dragging me down. It says that I'm the reason everyone's unhappy, that I'm weak and pathetic. I just want it to go away. My friends sometimes ask what's bothering me and I don't want them to worry so I tell them it's nothing. I just don't want to keep lying to them, I just want to be back to normal again.

I know exactly how you're feeling, and I went through the same feeling two years ago. And really what finally got that 'voice' to stop was to gain confidence in myself and my value as a human. I suggest talking to your closest friend about what's going on, someone you can rely on to not tell anyone else until you're ready to tell them.

If someone else knows, the burden that you carry is lifted because someone else knows what you're going through and you feel like you don't have to pretend to be happy all the time when you're not. I suggest keeping a diary if you don't already, because expressing your feelings down on paper can make them easier to understand and finding solutions to the negativity in your head is easier. You won't feel better immediately, but if you try to find positives in your life (for example music, movies, people etc) and really focus on them, you'll notice yourself going back to normal. You're feeling like crap because you have all these emotions bottled up inside of you, and releasing them and replacing them with more positive emotions is the way you'll start feeling like your normal self. Make sure to rest, eat well and look after yourself because you don't need to be worry about feeling physically crap as well as mentally crap.