Hello, I apologize in advance for any mistakes. My native language isn't English. I hope that everyone will understand me. I ask for help in this section, although I'm not entirely sure if it's a good place. I don't really understand my condition and I don't know what is wrong with me. For several years I have been treated for major depressive disorder, but the doctors I met on my way didn't notice some of my problems, with some of them I was ashamed to speak. At the moment I'm in a fix. To make matter worse in less than two weeks my final exams are waiting for me. I can't stand the pressure. It all started with emptiness. Ever since I can remember I feel a huge sense of meaninglessness of existence. However, this is not all the time - there are times when I forget about all this and I'm glad - you can even say - I fall into 'mania'. However, these bad moments far outweigh in my life and a few times I tried to kill myself, and so far I hurt myself (cutting hands, stubbing out cigarettes on the skin). It's not like that in my life something terrible happened - I have great parents, no one close to me has not died, I wasn't beaten or abused. As a child I was very shy and I became 'a pray' of my school mates. Because of that I am terribly afraid of other people. On the other hand I terribly need them - I hate to be alone, even just met a person automatically becomes a super close to me, he or she knows all my secrets. When I entered puberty and experienced my first time, there came another problem. I hate sex. At least with a man. I wondered for a long time if I'm a lesbian (only movies depicting two women turn me). On the other hand, some men really attract me. I can't imagine myself witha woman and my fantasies represent only men. However, sex with a man doesn't give me any pleasure, it's even unpleasant. I feel pain. Mental and physical. It doesn't change the fact that I have always been searching for relationships. At the moment I'm with a girl, a little younger than me, with who I didn't have sex yet. However, my huge mood swings caused our quarrels and even now we don't talk to each other. Because of that I started to search the Internet to find some new people, mostly men, with whom I am even willing to make an appointment just for 'fun'! I can't even stop it now, I'm able to do anything just to meet people. I start meeting new people because of anger and then I can't say no to them. I can't even explain it well. In a nutshell: I'm a horrible wh**e. And there is another thing. I often use psychoactive substances. I don't mean I use some heavy drugs, just these commonly allowed like some meds. Just for pleasure. I prefer to get away from the world in which I live, I really hate it. And another: eating disorders. But it's just a part of my very low self-esteem, I hate myself, my appearance and my life, I can't look at the mirror. Everyone tells me I'm skinny, I'm pretty, and I don't believe it. From time to time I do 'a hunger strikes', but I can't stand it too long. I'm thinking about starting to throwing out like bulimics. Everyone tells me that I have huge mood swings. I don't notice it, but people in my surroundings always repeated that. I can fall into a rage from euphoria, one wrong word and I can stop speaking for a week. These "nice" times lasts really short, most of the time I spend angry or sad. Is there anything that fits into this scheme (in some way)? I ask because I have no idea how to deal with it. In real conversations I am too ashamed to say everything. So please help me. What to do with all of this? Am I sick? Are the doctors right and I am just suffering from depression? I think that it might be some kind of personality disorder, but I'm not a specialist. And further, whom can I ask to help? Find a psychologist, psychoanalyst or psychiatrist? Or maybe someone else? And do you have any other questions? Do you understand everything? Thank you in advance, Ewa