Thanks. There are pershaps some support groups, it's more about me not really believing in anything making any difference and I donīt want to get disappointed.
I have only had one longer period of therapy and several shorter contacts with counsellors and therapists and by that I still want to hope there might be better help somewhere out there. But I really agree it can be very difficult to find that help. Our public health care system is definately a big obstacle for accessing a more wide range of therapists and Iīve often thought I should just quit searching. But Iīm at the same time in need of some kind of health care contact to get my welfare and my sick leave so itīs not just therapy itself.
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I've probably touched on this before, because it's helped me -- I think. But do you have any support groups there that might help relieve some of the loneliness?
I went through a lot of therapists, the last with a Ph.D. and post-doc training, and she didn't really understand what was going on with me, or know how or want to communicate with me about that. Very sad, very disappointing. So . . .from my experience, even if therapists want to try to help, sometimes they can't.
I think you have said that you couldn't get what you think might be more appropriate therapy through your public health system? But even though I paid out of pocket, I don't think I got very effective therapy, even after doing what I thought was a good job of due diligence on my end before I hired people.
Here's another possible way to look at things, may help, may not. What if your depression and low self-esteem are just really difficult "cases"? If you had a difficult physical illness that medicine didn't help that much with what would you do? Would you look for alternatives? Distractions?
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