Discussion [Poll] Are you receiving therapy/ professional MH care?

[Sergeant45]

In my country you can be deemed not therapeutable. That's where I am at.

 

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i'm trying therapy. it's been 3 years and i don't see the difference. and i stopped taking my medication few months ago

 

[Chuunibyou]

I've been going to therapy for a long time with many different therapists, but it's never helped. the only reason I continue to attend is so I can get people off my back when they tell me to "just try therapy" as if just talking to someone is a universal solution to every problem.
I've also tried psych medication in the past, but not anymore. my body metabolizes medication in abnormal ways so nothing I've tried has ever helped, it'd either do nothing or fry my brain depending on which med it was.
I self medicate with recreational drugs though, which I've had some success with, I just wish the effects weren't so temporary.

 

[SpinandPainr]

I keep avoiding it. I make very little and feels like a waste of resources for a noncommittal person. besides I think my suicide response is simply one to prolonged stress.what will a shrink do about it? but here I am again, talking myself out of it again

I know advice isn't something we are usually supposed to do but if anyone has tips for fear of doctors I'll take them. Not just MH docs... all of them these days.

 

[HD72]

I just saw this thread. I have been in therapy and on meds since I was 15. Before that my mother would give me her Ativan to shut me up because she couldn't be bothered to get me help even though I begged.'I now have brain damage from the psych meds and I want to warn EVERYONE please only use them as a last resort my life is ruined. It's why I need to die.
Look up tardive dyskinesia, dystonia, and akathisia. There is no cure the doctors know nothing about it and all they do is pull u off meds cold turkey which increases the illness. They diagnose you with psychosis and give you antipsychotics which cause or exacerbates this illness and if u refuse the med they throw u in detox or the psych ward. The pain is unbearable. Absolutely unbearable. I can't eat sleep shit hold still I live in terror 24/7 it causes hallucinations my skin crawls. My muscles spasms so bad I can't walk and all they do is give me more meds. There is a warning on these meds but the doctors will tell u it doesn't cause it or it will go away if you stop the med. this is not true. Do your research before taking anything. Especially antipsychotics benzos or anti nausea meds. Metaclopramide is terrible for it. That's why I get so upset when I read for people to take it with SN. If u don't succeed you could end up with these terrible side effects on top of your reason for wanting to go.

 

[ASilentHope]

After struggling mentally for most of my life I recently started therapy. I've been very inconsistent with it. Mainly because of the cost of it.

I personally feel that I may need more to get my ship on a level keel, but I'm horrified of the stigma of that being on my medical records. I'm currently in the hiring process for a major fire dept., and I'm scared that it would disqualify me through their psych eval on top of the side effects of medications impacting job performance. I'd rather be manicly saving lives and frying my brain than be partially medically sedated and get someone hurt.

 

[SeafoamSkeleton]

I started with my current therapist a year ago and started meds again two months ago. I am definitely still on a downward spiral. It all feels hopeless. Years and years ago I tried 6 different meds, and only the sleeping pills worked, so I'm guessing these won't work either. I don't know how or why I'm still trying...

 

[Meatballhead]

The question is how not to recieve therapy??

 

[idiotmother]

I just saw this thread. I have been in therapy and on meds since I was 15. Before that my mother would give me her Ativan to shut me up because she couldn't be bothered to get me help even though I begged.'I now have brain damage from the psych meds and I want to warn EVERYONE please only use them as a last resort my life is ruined. It's why I need to die.
Look up tardive dyskinesia, dystonia, and akathisia. There is no cure the doctors know nothing about it and all they do is pull u off meds cold turkey which increases the illness. They diagnose you with psychosis and give you antipsychotics which cause or exacerbates this illness and if u refuse the med they throw u in detox or the psych ward. The pain is unbearable. Absolutely unbearable. I can't eat sleep shit hold still I live in terror 24/7 it causes hallucinations my skin crawls. My muscles spasms so bad I can't walk and all they do is give me more meds. There is a warning on these meds but the doctors will tell u it doesn't cause it or it will go away if you stop the med. this is not true. Do your research before taking anything. Especially antipsychotics benzos or anti nausea meds. Metaclopramide is terrible for it. That's why I get so upset when I read for people to take it with SN. If u don't succeed you could end up with these terrible side effects on top of your reason for wanting to go.

In the same boat. Forced onto risperidone and on klonopin. Scared to reduce either. Before that, Effexor withdrawal and bad supplement reaction. I've lost the will to live even though it'll destroy my family. I'm so sorry your mother put you on Ativan, that's straight up abuse.

 

[HD72]

In the same boat. Forced onto risperidone and on klonopin. Scared to reduce either. Before that, Effexor withdrawal and bad supplement reaction. I've lost the will to live even though it'll destroy my family. I'm so sorry your mother put you on Ativan, that's straight up abuse.

Yes and she thinks she shits roses. She even let a dentist abuse me when I was 7 and blamed me. Her excuse was she didn't know any better. She was a college graduate in childhood education from a very prominent college.

 

[idiotmother]

Yes and she thinks she shits roses. She even let a dentist abuse me when I was 7 and blamed me. Her excuse was she didn't know any better. She was a college graduate in childhood education from a very prominent college.

Sorry to hear about that, how vicious. Wolf in sheep's clothing with the degree to back it up and make her look respectable. Absolute trash.

 

[HD72]

Sorry to hear about that, how vicious. Wolf in sheep's clothing with the degree to back it up and make her look respectable. Absolute trash.

And now I'm so sick. The doctors won't help. There's nothing u can do for akathisia and tardive dyskinesia anyway. She'd give me her psych meds. Load me up on Benadryl and cough syrup and only take me to the dr if I had a fever. I was allowed 7 days antibiotic.
I was always sick but she never took me to find
Out why. I had to wait til I was an adult to get to drs even though my dad was a commander at the hospital.
He wouldn't let me go either. His friends who were drs knew it too. So much for mandated reporters. I guess when your drinking buddies are doctors you get away with anything.

 

[25dRvS9Ka]

No - tried getting help but got refused

 

[idiotmother]

And now I'm so sick. The doctors won't help. There's nothing u can do for akathisia and tardive dyskinesia anyway. She'd give me her psych meds. Load me up on Benadryl and cough syrup and only take me to the dr if I had a fever. I was allowed 7 days antibiotic.
I was always sick but she never took me to find
Out why. I had to wait til I was an adult to get to drs even though my dad was a commander at the hospital.
He wouldn't let me go either. His friends who were drs knew it too. So much for mandated reporters. I guess when your drinking buddies are doctors you get away with anything.

It's a corrupt industry. They make money off of our sickness and are buddy buddy with the pharmaceutical companies. It's really sick, I hate them so much . That's messed up of your dad too, wonder if he cared about any of his patients or were they all just paychecks?
Akathisia is fucking horrible, no one understands it and it's the worst thing ever. Some people really get screwed on this planet, in so many ways. It's so unfair.

 

[ndver1122]

I can't afford it and I doubt it would work for me anyway.

 

[meuine]

Tried therapy through a GP referral, with my university, and PCMHT in the UK. Was not helpful especially CBT, and I had one therapist cry while recounting my failed ctb so that was awkward. Also tried medication but stopped taking it a while ago. I already felt hopeless before trying everything and I don't know what to do now.