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

[Sergeant45]

In my country you can be deemed not therapeutable. That's where I am at.

 

[repeat.]

i'm trying therapy. it's been 3 years and i don't see the difference. and i stopped taking my medication few months ago

 

[Chuunibyou]

I've been going to therapy for a long time with many different therapists, but it's never helped. the only reason I continue to attend is so I can get people off my back when they tell me to "just try therapy" as if just talking to someone is a universal solution to every problem.
I've also tried psych medication in the past, but not anymore. my body metabolizes medication in abnormal ways so nothing I've tried has ever helped, it'd either do nothing or fry my brain depending on which med it was.
I self medicate with recreational drugs though, which I've had some success with, I just wish the effects weren't so temporary.

 

[SpinandPainr]

I keep avoiding it. I make very little and feels like a waste of resources for a noncommittal person. besides I think my suicide response is simply one to prolonged stress.what will a shrink do about it? but here I am again, talking myself out of it again

I know advice isn't something we are usually supposed to do but if anyone has tips for fear of doctors I'll take them. Not just MH docs... all of them these days.

 

[HD72]

I just saw this thread. I have been in therapy and on meds since I was 15. Before that my mother would give me her Ativan to shut me up because she couldn't be bothered to get me help even though I begged.'I now have brain damage from the psych meds and I want to warn EVERYONE please only use them as a last resort my life is ruined. It's why I need to die.
Look up tardive dyskinesia, dystonia, and akathisia. There is no cure the doctors know nothing about it and all they do is pull u off meds cold turkey which increases the illness. They diagnose you with psychosis and give you antipsychotics which cause or exacerbates this illness and if u refuse the med they throw u in detox or the psych ward. The pain is unbearable. Absolutely unbearable. I can't eat sleep shit hold still I live in terror 24/7 it causes hallucinations my skin crawls. My muscles spasms so bad I can't walk and all they do is give me more meds. There is a warning on these meds but the doctors will tell u it doesn't cause it or it will go away if you stop the med. this is not true. Do your research before taking anything. Especially antipsychotics benzos or anti nausea meds. Metaclopramide is terrible for it. That's why I get so upset when I read for people to take it with SN. If u don't succeed you could end up with these terrible side effects on top of your reason for wanting to go.