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

[ultradespair]

Stopped my first attempt at therapy because of not wanting to take meds/get into the cycle of taking a lot of different medication and suffering of all the side effects, also agoraphobia

 

[Foxcompany2nd3rd]

I went to a mental health 'professional' once, never went back or again. All they can do for you is listen, diagnose, and drug you. Beyond that they cannot mend a broken spirit. They treat you like a number, its just another day another patient to them.

I realized that after many years the only person that can help yourself is you, and if you fail you will CTB anyways.

 

[Takeme2whereibelong]

Yes have for previous attempts and now currently. On a very rare occasion ill find someone i click with who isnt offended by blatant honesty with the way i talk if i let my mask slip, (i am autistic so tend to lose my filter often when speaking). The rest i find difficult to engage with because they just dont get what we get. Even today in my suicide prevention session i was lectured about how i need to think of her if i did something how it would affect her because she'd then dwell on could've done or said something better to help. Im extremely passionate about people having the right to choose as long as there mentaly capable of deciding and not an adolescent unless in extreme circumstances for the latter (my personal opinion) and i think her comment is incredibly unfair.

 

[22yearsbroken]

Dine therapy many times im heavily medicated and im struggling to pick up the phone ... i have to make a call at some point i have the number sat there .. its to call the hospice to make sure my care is all in order with pallativ team.. due to my personal choices ..as i do not want the transplant that is coming soon.. its sound odd i know to refuse it but due to my other issues that is going to put me in a wheelchair and require people to wipe my arse and bath me ..cut up my food as my hands are fucked from osteoporsis and (thus already going on) i nearly dropped a boiling kettle on my feet the other day as my hand could nit hold it.. i can know longer play the piano my true passion due to all this shit so why would i want tonlive longer when i cant actually live ....