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

[snowisfalling]

I'm in therapy but it's not really helpful. I am aware of what I need to do to "get better", but I am unwilling to do it, ultimately. Talking to someone is often more damaging than it is helpful. This lack of willingness is another reason why I am a scourge and would probably be better of dead.

I also hate when they over-validate my feelings. Like, if I describe my situation and they say my feelings about the situation are valid, I have a right to be upset about it and find it horrible. It's like, okay cool I'm right then. I don't feel any better.

Whether my feelings are "valid" or not, I really don't care. No irrational feelings are necessarily "valid". They are chemical processes we can assign interpretation to. I will feel them regardless.

 

[craigtucker]

i'm in therapy at the moment — currently on prozac but averse to taking medications due to my parents' neglect. big problem im having right now in therapy is masking, anytime i have DARED to bring up SI or anything that can't be responded to with "you just need to think positively" i watch my therapist get this wide, shocked look in her eyes and immediately try to redirect the convo to something more palatable

i kind of want to ghost her if im being completely honest, i like her and i think she cares about me and i think she's trying to do a good job all things considered, but now i just wanna run away lolol

 

[Gone&Over]

Yes, but it was completely useless. To be fair I was forced to go, so I didn't even try to make it work.

 

[slowlybreaking]

as of right now, just therapy to talk about my grief, but haven't talked about my suicidal ideations, i don't think i'll ever bring them. i stopped taking my medication because my sleep schedule has gone to shit and i'm not motivated to take them anyways, i've given up.

 

[plskilme]

Tried therapy multiple times. Never worked. Tried anti-depressants, they worked great for like the first week, but then I felt 0 emotion at all. Body is also allergic to 2 of the most common ingredients in meds so my pool of meds is pretty limited.

 

[letsnotmakeittoo22]

as of right now, just therapy to talk about my grief, but haven't talked about my suicidal ideations, i don't think i'll ever bring them. i stopped taking my medication because my sleep schedule has gone to shit and i'm not motivated to take them anyways, i've given up.

Same boat. Accident fell off my vyvanse. I have no desire, will or ability to care.

 

[_on_the_borderline_]

I am treated by a public mental health center, I was followed by a psychiatrist and a psychologist, currently only a psychologist, I have had a couple of hospitalizations in a psychiatric hospital For short periods in 2022, apart from initial periods in which I tried some therapies (max. 2/3 months) I am now "unmedicated" for years, I couldn't get along well with it (I wanted to be prescribed at least one therapy as needed, not continuous, but still nothing done), Even though there have been some changes, ultimately things aren't "better" in the long run, there are just different details...the pain is still there..

 

[kittygolem]

I tried therapy (multiple professionals, actually), and it has never helped, at least for me. I'd be gaslit, have my feelings invalidated, and would be encouraged to make really dumb choices by them.

Medication is a better story for me, but I'm assumed to have bipolar disorder, and so most medications send me into a constant state of mania, which I always think is them working, but it actually isn't, and I end up hurting people and myself.

Just not worth it. I'm suicidal, but at very least I'm stable and able to bottle it on my own. I plan to keep going this way.

 

[sleepytime5]

psychiatric meds so far helped me but I still wanna kms just differently now

 

[Lucifer’s Son]

I'm 31, and I've been in therapy since age 4. I've only had one therapist, a psychologist, who actually helped me. And I had to stop seeing him because of insurance issues. Finding someone who I can both connect with and who can handle my trauma seems to be a nearly impossible task. Psych meds don't do anything for me either, the closest thing has been a couple of meds that stopped working after a week.