Someone to talk too

[UnknownTruth]

Hey everyone. I recently posted mentioning this a bit. But I feel like I need to finally talk to a professional. I don't know it Its called therapy of just talking to a phycologist. But I'm concerned that if I go to the doctors they will just give me a number to a company that don't seem to care unless you're suicidal. I'd rather be referred to someone than have to go through stages just to finally talk to a professional. I hope that makes sense haha. When I went to the doctors about chest pains they suggested I might be depression and anxious which I knew that I'd been feeling that way for years but haven't told anyone to this day. But they just gave me a generic company number that you can just find online. Any suggests or advice? I have been this was for about 6 years and no one knows

[stopmehelpwhatamI]

i feel ya brother, my parent dont know, and if i tell them about my 'problem' theyll just get mad and yell and say im fine, as for advice, i dont know much about therapy, but look up therapist and sqedual an appointment, within your price range of course i give you my prayers, srry f your atheist.

[UnknownTruth in reply to stopmehelpwhatamI]

I'm sorry to hear that they would get mad. That's not needed at all in that situation. I have always just felt like I'd be a burden. And I am but no need to say sorry hahah thank you

[Stilltrying_]

I think each area of the country is different in how they refer and who they refer to. Are you in the UK? I know some doctors refer to a community wellbeing team (someone mentioned it on a post recently) and that I think is to decide whether counselling which is generally cognitive behaviour counselling would be suitable for you. If they consider the problem to be more serious then they may refer to the community mental health team but they try and keep things "light" at first as often a referral to the CMHT is not required, merely some talking therapy which would generally last around 8 to 10 weeks but there would generally be a waiting list. It certainly isn't the case that they are only interested if you are suicidal. Infact I find it very hard to get help when suicidal myself.

If I were you I'd go back to the doctors and ask if there is any counselling available locally and what would be the process to access it. Any type of talking therapy would probably help but the one you are most likely to be offered is CBT which aims at changing your thought patterns. The other type of counselling sometimes offered is person centred counselling which focuses more on exploring your issues together and helping you find solutions.

Just giving you a generic phone number eg of the Samaritans is not suitable in your case when you would clearly like some time to explore your issues and get some help with them'

Psychologists are generally accessed through a mental health team and they deal with more indepth issues that you have been troubling you for some time, so if you feel you have this sort of thing which needs working on then maybe mention it to the doctor. However there are very long waiting times for this sort of thing ( a year is not uncommon) so you need to put a plan of action in place for the here and now such as short term counselling.

[UnknownTruth]

Oh wow thank you for the information. I have been putting the doctors appointment off for a while now. I hopefully will go and I hope that I get what I'm looking for. As everyone should when feeling this way. Thank you for the advice and information. Very helpful!