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

[-nobodyknows-]

I've given up on treatment. The level that I need would cause me to be unable to live a normal life.

 

[mswhite]

Two therapists I like a lot, a very wonderful psychiatrist, a stay in a hospital, and Ive been med compliant for over a year.

And I feel like I'm going backwards. I don't know how much longer I can do this.

 

[Foggy Morning]

I'm in therapy and on medication. When I tell my t that I have been thinking a lot about suicide, been looking into ways to do it and preparing for the kids she says she knows I'm safe because I'm Catholic. Pst... the church has realized that mental health plays a role so they have changed their stance.

 

[penguinl0v3s]

Insurance companies PURPOSELY make mental health care INACCESSIBLE because it's not profitable. If you are finding it hard to get treatment, it's not your fault. Multibillion dollar companies are DENYING your care. Fuck insurance and fuck the US

How the U.S. insurance system makes finding mental health care difficult

More than one in five adults in the U.S. live with a mental illness, but only about half receive treatment. Many struggle to find a therapist that will accept their insurance. An NPR/ProPublica investigation found that therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists who join insurance networks often...

www.pbs.org

 

[itwasallascream]

No - tried therapy but it didn't help

I can just answer with a general "No" bc my MH issues are a result of external circumstances that cannot be treated with therapy and/or meds. Even if I wanted therapy now I couldn't afford it anymore. In my case, the best "therapy" was to stop fighting against windmills - the permanent failures came to an end, the situation calmed down and I feel much better now.

Please do a vote on menopause and HRT

 

[n0exit]

Been in and out of therapy for 21 years now. Tried pretty much every SSRI/SNRI/anti psychotic/etc etc etc. Been hospitalized more times than I can count, really. I've had enough medical trauma (mostly for my physical health, but an equal amount of MH related trauma) to last me for... longer than I'll be alive, hopefully.

While my current therapist is actually really good and helpful in a lot of ways, it's just... not enough. Because my physical health is absolutely horrible, and that's not going to change. My financial situation isn't gonna change. The trauma that was inflicted upon me since I was young and still is will never end until I do.

 

[Abyssal]

Therapy doesn't help and I can't tell if I'm gaslighting myself into believing meds are or if they kinda work. If they are working, it's not 100% and I say I wanna die a lot each week.

I mean, it's a step up from spending every second of the day suicidal. Now I'm just suicidal every couple/few days which is an improvement

 

[AresCohere]

Forced to for three years, was involuntarily hospitalized and by that point I was able to resist and stopped ever going.

I will NEVER talk to any kind of 'mental health professional' ever again, unless strictly necessary.

I've been forced to talk a few times but I've been very strategic and careful about my language to ensure that it doesn't happen again…

 

[bianyuan]

meds. i barely make enough money to cover a lot of shit im obligated to cover and there aren't a lot of therapists in my area for my condition but maybe ill save up for it. the pills aren't really for my mental state either, just to turn me into a functional working adult

 

[marsupial]

I tried. Sick of trying.

 

[koipu1337]

I've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars (of almost entirely other people's money) on various psychiatric treatments and interventions, to absolutely no avail.

 

[korra]

Not anymore...

 

[twolegs]

Took meds and also went to therapy

 

[AnthraxLover]

No, I feel sort of unseen that despite being notably mentally ill, probably autistic, gay, blah blah whatever, I slipped through the cracks completley and have never ever been checked out, noticed in school or anything like that. My mum caught me with self harm once and basically told me to stop and that's it. No one cares. I would be glad if someone cared enough to get me sectioned.

 

[norkz]

I was ofc thinking into therapy and try to get better but I think I've reached my limit and I don't really want to get well ? Idk how it sounds but is true. I've been years ago and even though it helped it took years to find the right therapist.

 

[ham and potatoes]

Im on meds, but obviously not enough, seeing as im here haha

 

[WhatMightHaveBeen]

Just had a session today. My appointments are a couple months apart. I stopped taking my medications a couple months ago, but I didn't tell my doctor, nor did I tell him I'm thinking about CTB.

 

[VI48]

Tried therapy twice, once against my volition when I was younger and remember fuck all from. Most recent experience had the therapist either not believe me, made it clear I could not talk about some of my problems over my head without getting people involved, and downplayed the issues I did bring up.

 

[butterflyguy]

I feel like I've tried everything.

 

[watamote12]

bipolar I take aripripazole

 

[RN13]

Those evil SSRI med side effects are the cause of my dead
Psychiatry is a barbaric pseudo science. Stay away

 

[itsover404]

Therapy helped before i became serioiusly ill. now it's just a half hour of me complaining about problems that never get better. my therapist would just sit there and listen. I have severe memory loss from schizoaffective so i could never remember what i talked about after i left. Some mental problems don't get better from talking about them. Medication only does so much, it allows me to sleep. I'm sure my problems would be worse if i couldn't. When this started i went 4 weeks without being able to sleep at all and i was so confused and upset. Every night i would lay there, unable to sleep. I'm somewhat active in the schizoaffective subreddit and it seems a majority of people there have similar problems. For some reason when the disease starts it just breaks your brain in a multitude of ways, being able to naturally sleep being one of them. I miss my old life. I miss just being able to smoke some weed, put on a good album, and talk things out and that would fix things. it is what it is. nothing i can do to change it.

 

[meowingnomore]

it helped for a few months and i really thought i'd finally seen the other side of all this but it just slips back around like always. knowing there's another side of this but knowing i can't hold onto it really is the ultimate hope killer.

 

[Somberlain]

i speak to a psychologist every week and have multiple social workers i meet with as well. i'm also on a large number of meds. none of it helps. the only thing that helps is my cat

 

[Malan2003]

I'm taking medications but it's not working.

 

[Homulily]

I used to see a therapist a few years ago but she moved to another province so I stopped.

Scared to get medication since I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
I would love something to help take off my edge. I'm so fucking stressed all the time.

 

[Raven_Nevermore]

Therapy only.

 

[MinrathousGallus]

I stop caring about my doctor since I made up my mind. I was on ADHD meds & Anti-Depressant. And I've been with their support for 2 years, but I don't think it's working, call me pessimistic but over the last 2 years there's barely any change for me. It seems to only get worse with every week passed.

better spend my money elsewhere before I leave this place for good.

 

[memoriesofyesterday]

No, not yet. I've become a drunk, so I don't remember if I posted in this thread. But because I see it over and over again I probably did.

I want to seek therapy but afraid to tell the therapist I want to kill myself.

Don't care about shitty food being served or "lights out:, I am more curious if I can smoke.

I'm also curious about showers? Do I have to get naked in front of someone? Will I have a TV? Do I have to share a room with someone?

 

[theolivanderroach]

I don't have a doctor and have too much social anxiety and lack of energy to find one. Don't want to wait for years either.

I was on SSRIs for two years through an online pharmacy. As expected, they did nothing. They actually just made me more apathetic than I already was.

I've been put on involuntary hospital holds a few times before but I just lied to the doctors because I didn't want to stay there.