hello everyone! i am an 8th grader and i wanted to know if i may be depressed. so in 6th grade i would come home, do my work, hang out with friends or whatever. in 7th grade, things took a turn. i would come home hopeless and sleep for 6-10 hours as a “nap”. to give you a visual, i would come home at around 2 pm, eat, sleep and wake up at 1am eat and go back to sleep and wake up at 6am but STILL feel tired. my grades used to be good until this struck. i wouldn’t be able to do my work, i would sleep through class (although i slept for literally 12 hours), and i would fall behind in class. things got worse as my school counselor called me down to her office and talked about how my grades were slipping really badly. she explained to me that i had to “change what i was doing” or i would “end up homeless”. this broke me. i tried my best to stay awake and get work done but i would come home, sleep and wake up at 1am crying because i thought of myself as a failure. my mom would literally DRAG me out of bed and beg me to go to school but i just couldn’t. this got me a letter sent from the government saying i might have to show up in court over how many absences i’ve had. my parents would have to beg and plead me to take showers. and i thought of suicide. now that i’m in 8th grade, i continue these terrible “habits”. idk if i’m depressed or not. and my parents are from a foreign country and don’t really understand what mental illness looks like. my friends joke and say i’m “depressed” and don’t think much about it. my counselor tried to explain to my mom that i may be depressed and need help but my mom said “i know my daughter, she is not like that” and my counselor essentially left me in the dark. if anyone could please explain to me if i’m depressed or something? i would extremely appreciate it.