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Originally Posted by 2daffodils
I can relate to you somewhat, I know it is hard to accept help when you feel you don't deserve it, but YOU DO!
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The problem is that I don't deserve it. I have been asking for help but it has now got to the point where there is nothing else the mental health team can offer me (other than ECT) because I am not sick enough to qualify for any other treatments.
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Originally Posted by Mopey
LittleBlackDog I remember your situation a couple of months ago when you were assigned to a therapist you couldn't bond with and you were seeking some alternatives.
To be told you don't need therapy just because you don't hear voices is ... well, it's just simply unbelievable. There are many many types of mental disturbance that are hideously painful that don't involve hearing voices.
I live in the USA and often read about the dire straits of the medical system in the UK. It's too bad because ideally I believe in socialized medicine, but in reality those systems often seem to fail their patients. People fall through the cracks, or wait months, years, for surgery they need, I've heard.
Obviously you have yet to be matched with a therapist, but that certainly doesn't mean you don't deserve one.
I don't remember if you were on medication? Sometimes that can help these painful symptoms.
Please keep telling us about what's going on with you.  |
Thank you. I am not on any medication, it doesn't work and I am very sensitive to side-effects.
I am starting group therapy in a couple of weeks time, and it was the therapist who runs the group who has told me that I am not ill. Which just makes me even more anxious about starting as I have really bad social anxiety and a huge fear of rejection and now I think they will all just be sitting there wondering why I am even there whinging about how bad my life is when there isn't even anything wrong with me.
But, I have no other options. I am struggling so much at the moment and I reached out to my so-called 'care team' and all they can offer me is a possibility of some compassion-focussed therapy, but I can't do that as well as the group therapy and they all think I should do the group therapy (presumably so they don't have to deal with me themselves).
Plus, everyone (GP, psychiatrist etc.) keeps telling me that it's only a couple of weeks till I start group therapy and acting like this will solve all my problems but, even if it works it is not a quick fix and I am struggling so much at the moment
I can barely make it through the day. I am not sleeping, feel sick all the time and feel like I am drowning and can't breathe but because I get dressed and go to work nobody believes me, or cares.