Help please
Hello. I am a 18-year-old male who just graduated high school. I’m kind of stuck at the moment with my current spot in my life. I just graduated last Sunday and everything was kind of going great for me. I graduated with NHS honors, I have an amazing girlfriend, and I already have college plans lined up for next year.
But now it’s summer. To be honest, I’ve always hated summer. I always fall into this deep slump of a depression spiral as now I am not in contact with my friends every day. I don’t get to see people all the time and right now that depressive slump is hitting me harder than it ever has. Today on the way home perfect example, after getting the opportunity to hang out with my girlfriend after not seeing her for a long time and some of our mutual friends, I felt this overwhelming sense of lack of empathy. It not only felt like it came from a sense of lack of empathy from others to me, but also a lack of empathy from me about any current situation. To make matters worse I felt like I barely got to talk to her or see her the entire night because she was mostly talking with other people. And then of course at the end of the night when all I wanted to do was just get five minutes by ourselves to talk with her. I couldn’t even do that as one of our friends who cannot drive yet waited until the last second to ask for a ride home.
As the night progressed, I felt as if everything was just going wrong and I wasn’t sure what to do about it. Now I’m sitting at home and I’m not exactly sure what to do. When I get into these depressive slumps, I tend overthink every single little thing about my life. And now here I am posting this onto Reddit because I have zero clue what the hell I’m supposed to do or who I’m supposed to talk to. So please yall any support would be great cause I’m gonna need it to get through this summer.