My therapist, a clinical nurse (-_- I was seeing a psychologist but got given a clinical nurse after leaving the mental health services care for a short period of time), seems to be more focused on how I am doing in regards to making friends in college and how I'm doing with getting on the bus etc. She's much more focused on solving my problems yet I don't even know what those problems are or where they stem from.
I've not been diagnosed with anything, no one has suggested anything. My boyfriend thinks I have PTSD, my mum thinks I have bipolar and I'm pretty sure everyone I meet assumes I am depressed. All I know is that there is something wrong with my head, but everyone I have spoken to at this mental health service place doesn't want to diagnose me.. not that I've asked to be diagnosed or even hinted at it.
I'm not on medication (which I think would help me personally - I'm not a talky person..), I barely see my therapist (she has no time and has more urgent cases), yet I feel like I'm about to collapse into a heap of broken-ness and I don't know what to do. I know I'm bad. It's weird to say, but my mental health right now is deteriorating and it's bad (for me to deal with anyway). Yet I don't even know what the hell is wrong?
Is this the right way for my therapist to be going about getting me 'better'? I am one of those people that likes to know the problem before coming up with solutions.. I'm pretty sure my therapist is more interested in how many friends I've made or what I'm learning in my classes as opposed to whether I slept the night before or not or whether I am actually eating and being able to leave the house etc.
What do I do? Should I tell her all of this.. what if she turns around and says there is nothing wrong with me? (I know that's the ideal outcome.. but I have a big feeling it's not just nothing). I've had mental health issues ever since being young and my whole family believes there is something going on... just no one knows what.
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