Thanks for sharing. I live in Stockholm and Iīve heard about meetups but as Iīve felt and feel sad, down and depressed I havenīt felt that social or wanting to join "jolly activities" and feeling the pressure to be interested and engaged in activities.
I never developed any real interests I think, I īve mostly been the "good and competent girl" who had good grades and behaved in a nice way. I donīt know what Iīm interested in besides more general activities like going to a movie, have a coffee at a nice café and similar.
Iīm not quite sure about the transportation thing, could you specify what you mean? Iīve lived quite near Stockholm city for years so the distance itself isnīt stopping me for going to town from time to time. Perhaps I mentioned this about transportation when it comes to see a T who has her practice far away?
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Even with gobs of therapy, the best "help" for me in recent years has been support groups (including here on PC) and some "meetup" groups of people with similar interests (see Meetup.com, there are some in Stockholm, don't know about where you are).
In addition to some specific traumatic events that caused me to dissociate from some emotions, and which trauma-focused therapy probably did help with, a lot of my difficulties with anxiety and perfectionism (in myself and expectations of others) came because I had not really been accepted/loved as my essential somewhat "nerdish" self in my very socially-conscious family of origin. 
Getting to "feel" how sad that was has been a biggy, but then what? Finding some regular people who are more like me -- and there are some. It's taken awhile but I feel kind of accepted sometimes. Or maybe you're artistic? Or something else? What are your interests, besides mental health, although that's important, too, of course. Or what were you interested in or did you enjoy doing when you were a kid?
I think you said a while back that transportation was difficult or expensive? Would you like for us to help you brainstorm some about that? |