Discussion [Poll] Are you receiving therapy/ professional MH care?

[rainwillneverstop]

Pick the answer most suitable for your situation.

 

[LapseInTime]

Tons of therapy, tons of medication. The only good thing is that after all these years, nobody can blame me that I didn't try.

 

[s54321]

Countless hours of therapy, all medication avaiable in my country, including a brain surgery (doc says the only thing left to try that might come in the next years is Psilocybin, with a wink like i should get it on my own)
Nothing helps

 

[EvisceratedJester]

No, since I'm not mentally ill. My parents were planning to make me see a psychologist but nothing has happened yet, so I'm probably not going to have to deal with that.

 

[timetodie24]

Yes to MH care but not an option for it as not having therapy or meds just assessment and formulation atm. Then by end of assessment they'll realise nothing to treat .
But have tried lots of therapies and meds before, nothing really helped. I'm not ill, just defective

 

[potatocube]

Just start to reach out again after running away. Now that I have a backup plan I can't fuck up anything? Decide to give myself another chance to live. Maybe new meds and new therapist. We will see how things turn out

 

[mikuhappy]

therapy and medication

 

[twin size mattress]

Therapy and meds. I'm trying, I really am.

 

[willitpass]

Missing an option for no-tried therapy, meds, and unconventional treatments and they didn't work.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I'm taking therapy for social anxiety but that's only because my mum forced me to. I don't want to take the therapy as I don't think that it works for me. I don't want my social anxiety to be cured. Instead, I want to simply never interact with anybody irl to begin with. Also, I'm not taking any medication

 

[Forever Sleep]

Tried both therapy and medication briefly. Maybe therapy would have made a difference if I'd been more committed and stuck with it but I found it uncomfortable and intrusive. I guess it has to be in a way. Herbal meds like St. John's Wort seemed to do more for me than Fluoextine (Prozac,) which didn't seem to do anything.

Now though, I'm not really interested in 'recovery'. I simply don't want to put the work in for it to fail again. I'd rather just try and remain steady treading water till I don't feel the need to anymore.

 

[badK9wolf]

Restarting therapy with a new therapist after years away, trying to find a medication that works but just got the "treatment resistant depression" label so I'm not sure what else there's left to try that is actually covered by insurance. I can't really afford anything alternative at this point.

 

[coolgal82]

Looking into getting like a referral to a psychiatrist to figure out like specifically what is wrong with my brain and maybe get on like meds or something but idk if i'll try therapy cus i tried stuff in the past and they did nothing because i just kinda shut down and dont open up. also idk if i even would because the badness is kinda comforting in a weird horrible way, and also i dont deserve help because im a bad person.

 

[vanillamilkshakes]

was in therapy, but couldn't stand her. looking for a new one now, but i don't have much hope

 

[apearl]

Tons of therapy, tons of medication. The only good thing is that after all these years, nobody can blame me that I didn't try.

Aint that the truth

 

[let.me.let.go87]

It's been forced on me all my life. I can't escape it. I don't want it. But yes I am. It one reason I want so desperately to CTB. To escape this MH cycle.

 

[betternever2havbeen]

I've never had any help with my MH. I mentioned anxiety to my doctor because that genuinely scares me in a way depression doesn't (plus I'm very used to depression) but he just recommended antidepressants anyway. I'm thinking about it, I wanted to go on them years ago but there are so many different kinds and some people seem to get side-effects. I also thought about therapy, but all these things are like a serious commitment. I still go back and forth about whether I'm "mentally ill" or just reacting to the horrible and traumatic circumstances I've been put in with a lot of family illnesses and death which I've seen close up. Makes me wonder how anyone would've coped.

 

[TennTrixie]

People seem to not realize that everyone who wants to CTB is mentally ill or have emotional problems. People can have incurable illnesses that will make life miserable. Why live when there is no possibility of any quality of life? No amount of therapy or crisis hotlines will change that or make things better.

 

[Soph]

The worst part of meds is the secundary effects, gain or loose wheight like crazy and unbalanced, the headaches and some even makes us go to Nárnia and only the body is here but the mind is like being high all the time. Is good to make treatment but sometimes is useless when the depression and anxiety is in a advanced stage, is like dying mentally but the body is intact with so many strong meds. Sorry my grammar I'm from Portugal.

 

[Chr0nicAnhedonic]

I have a lot more to say about how the mental health system is designed to fail us, but I'll try to keep the scope of my response limited to just me.

I was in therapy and on meds throughout my entire adolescence and gave up on all of it in 2022. I have been through 10+ different therapists, was on 5 different meds, and was hospitalized twice. None of it helped. I'm autistic, and very few therapists know how to handle that, even fewer who actually work with adults. The ones I talked to had a very surface level understanding of it, but was still guided by CBT/DBT (which are proven to be not effective or counter-effective for autistic people). You have to jump through so many hoops to even get a chance at getting help, and the chance of it being effective is considerably low.

It's painful. I wanted to get better. On some level, I still do. But I always end up back in the same place no matter what I try or who I talk to, so why even bother anymore? The statistics for mental illness and suicide don't indicate things getting better either...

 

[J'sSister]

"and also i dont deserve help because im a bad person."

A bad person? You mean a sinner?
We are all sinners. Did you know that that's why Jesus came into the world, to save sinners?

You DO deserve help!! 1 year ago yesterday my brother killed himself. He deserved more help than he received but he refused to pursue. He definitely deserved it but he needed to receive it!

I am merely a forgiven sinner and getting help through a Christian support group for survivors of suicide loss. Because yes, when you die it matters to those of use you leave behind!!

It DOESN'T matter how "bad" of a person you think you are. Please receive the help!!

 

[J'sSister]

I'm autistic

I think my older brother is on the spectrum (many years ago they didn't diagnose autism).

You're life is likely very challenging because of your autism. Relationships and perhaps basic social interaction may be very difficult for you.

I am sorry that you are here, but hope that you will find the support you need!

 

[-Link-]

Medication only, right now. I haven't been in any form of therapy in over a year. I've done a lot of different treatments and I basically just feel burned out on it right now.

I'd give consideration to Ketamine, but I suspect they'd want me to try rTMS first. Either way, I'd be looking at ridiculous waiting times. Probably about two years. So come to think of it, maybe I should be getting referrals right now, and that way they'll be available to me when I finally feel up to it again...

 

[coolgal82]

A bad person? You mean a sinner?
We are all sinners. Did you know that that's why Jesus came into the world, to save sinners?

You DO deserve help!! 1 year ago yesterday my brother killed himself. He deserved more help than he received but he refused to pursue. He definitely deserved it but he needed to receive it!

I am merely a forgiven sinner and getting help through a Christian support group for survivors of suicide loss. Because yes, when you die it matters to those of use you leave behind!!

It DOESN'T matter how "bad" of a person you think you are. Please receive the help!!

i mean yeah i sin but i dont believe in that shit that's not what i meant lmao, i dont feel bad about "sinning"

 

[rozeske]

I'm from a place where suicidality and mental health issues are directly linked to the devil's work and assumed to be results and symptoms of being possessed. Even if i wanted it the best treatment you can recieve is the holy water. We are a million years behind.

 

[HereTomorrow]

Therapy and medication, in the past.

I do genuinely think professional mental healthcare helps. It helped my friends and peers significantly. But when it's forced, as it was for me as a 12 year old for therapy and medication, it was traumatizing, agonizing, and impossible to speak about abuses because it's portrayed as me not wanting to get better. Almost a decade later I still get full blown anxiety and overwhelm from just thinking about it.

Also, from an Asian family. Openly discussing mental health is a death wish and the entire time I was receiving care they told me to keep it hush hush and to never speak of it, which made the forced help even more torturous. I've said since I was 16 if I was forced into therapy again I'd CTB as soon as possible, and I still will.

I do want to get better, but not this route. Therapy and medication has ruined my life. I hope it doesn't for whoever is reading this.

 

[Kavka]

I have a lot more to say about how the mental health system is designed to fail us, but I'll try to keep the scope of my response limited to just me.

I was in therapy and on meds throughout my entire adolescence and gave up on all of it in 2022. I have been through 10+ different therapists, was on 5 different meds, and was hospitalized twice. None of it helped. I'm autistic, and very few therapists know how to handle that, even fewer who actually work with adults. The ones I talked to had a very surface level understanding of it, but was still guided by CBT/DBT (which are proven to be not effective or counter-effective for autistic people). You have to jump through so many hoops to even get a chance at getting help, and the chance of it being effective is considerably low.

It's painful. I wanted to get better. On some level, I still do. But I always end up back in the same place no matter what I try or who I talk to, so why even bother anymore? The statistics for mental illness and suicide don't indicate things getting better either...

Yeah, therapy is (still) really CBT-coded and I, as someone with autism, have never found it effective. I remember that I could never really do the exercises well because my thoughts weren't irrational (with more evidence in favour of them) or there was no way of proving them wrong with objective evidence.

Even for neurotypicals, CBT is overhyped and portrayed as a cure-all, when in fact it's just not super effective for most mental disorders, including depression.

I have tried a few other 'third wave' therapies myself (from books) such as ACT, Metacognitive Therapy (MCT) and Behavioural Activation (BA). There is a lot of overlap between them, and I found these more helpful because they don't focus on the content of thoughts. More helpful is relative though, a lot of (autism related) problems can't be fixed.

 

[ninfanatic]

meds. they keep pushing me to take them, and i have been for awhile, but they don't help. therapy didn't help me either and i was in it since i was a child.

 

[rainwillneverstop]

Missing an option for no-tried therapy, meds, and unconventional treatments and they didn't work.

We were unfortunately limited by the amount of options, there's a maximum of 10.

 

[Dot]

We were unfortunately limited by the amount of options, there's a maximum of 10.

Yh thre wre ideas fr informl hlp & dffrnt thrpies & volntry vs involntry etc

S/ thre wll prbbly b mre plls in futre