[MaroonAbalone]

I met with a second psychologist last Friday and I have to say, it was a relief to talk about my anxiety and self-esteem troubles to him, someone who's open-minded and easygoing (psychologists on campus). With the first one during Thanksgiving Week, I spilled all my worrying concerns to her such as a possible autism test (she brought it up, actually, nothing worrying about it, just wanted to mention it), anger management, difficulty in socializing, depression, etc. I only talked about my anxiety last week. So slow progress, but nonetheless, progress is a good step forward, I guess.

I have to wait for a month or so for group therapy sessions to begin next semester. Now that I've begun getting help, I'm just itching to find something to help me this December because maybe there's something I can do on my own while I wait?

[Raindropvampire]

I really don't have any advice but saw you hadn't gotten an answer yet. Maybe my bumping your thread up will get you an actual answer. Good to you for getting help.

[MaroonAbalone]

Originally Posted by Raindropvampire

I really don't have any advice but saw you hadn't gotten an answer yet. Maybe my bumping your thread up will get you an actual answer. Good to you for getting help.

Thanks Tbh, I feel more comfortable sharing my concerns and deep problems with outsiders and this one friend from another state than my own friends. I guess it's due to the fact that they won't understand me and they can never relate.

[Anne2.0]

I get the part about the usefulness of therapy being the confiding in a stranger rather than a friend. For the really tough stuff, I think it's both beyond their ability to relate and not wanting to burden said friends with my experience/inner struggle. And not having to worry about the reaction of my friends and taking care of them once they understand my struggles makes therapy very useful for me.

I did some student counseling in college that was very useful to me. Although I would need to revisit therapy a decade later, and then a decade later after I thought I was done, the college counseling gave me the skills to know therapy could be useful to me and the sense to seek it when I needed to. Good luck to you.