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Try to go to a therapist first all psychiatrists will do is more hastily throw a diagnosis and meds at you whereas a therapist will talk to you and do therapy and help you understand yourself and change your habits and if need be refer you to a psychiatrist. If therapy doesn’t work then you go to them as a last resort but otherwise before everything else just exercise or do light cardio and meditation an hour a day for a month or two the effects are miraculous
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Has exercise and meditation really helped?
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@GJ7 It’s almost a panacea the Buddhists have been using it to treat mental illness as an early form of clinical psychology. There are a lot of articles academia just started looking into the matter unfortunately psychiatrists rarely suggest it because they haven’t been spoon fed this knowledge from school or an article and thus some possibly don’t know it
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@Demonrise Have you personally gotten better from exercise and meditation. And if so, how and what did you do each dat
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@GJ7 I just started but it helps lower stress and increase relaxation while sharpening the mind and stimulating it too. They both release dopamine and serotonin which are great for depression. Half an hour of treadmill and half hour moderate weights of u don’t have weights just do a bunch of sit-ups body squats pushups and stretch every muscle in your body especially in your spine and hamstrings till it hurts. Will feel like you took an opiate or something afterwards
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My advice is to take it one step at a time and don’t expect a straight line in recovery. All we can do is try. I went through several therapists that I just couldn’t connect with and now I have two amazing ones that I look forward to meeting with. I prefer psychologists over phychiatrists but everyone is different. The important thing is to keep trying and you will start to feel better simply by being more proactive about your mental health.
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Thanks for the advice. It is more helpful than I thought it would be. I want to try therapy I think, but I need to find the motivation to do so. For me, getting better isn’t enough motivation and that makes me sad.
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Therapist put it on the table that I should see a psychiatrist that she recommends. I felt relief because maybe the psychiatrist can tell me what's wrong and the plan going forward but im scared because what if my symptoms vanish or i miraculously get better (i doubt it) then what if i've been making a mountain of a mole hill. Or what if i dont know how to express myself. im obviously not scared of getting better, but i just don't want to seem like im making people scramble to treat me and then it turns out theres nothing wrong. like what if i don't have OCD and im just making all this stuff up in my head. what if i just want something to stress about
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my appointment with the psychiatrist is months away and still need to confirm everything but after talking with my therapist last night I just feel even more scared. Like scared I'm not going to provide enough info and then she'll tell me that nothing is wrong then all of this is for nothing. Of course, id love for there to be nothing wrong with me and to feel none of these things that have been bothering for so long. But the fear of being told that there isn't when its causing so much worry... it's making me really anxious. But it also makes me feel guilty because I feel like I'm just looking for attention or making something out of nothing. Even though I know very well it isn't nothing. I know that people sometimes take years or even decades to get help or get a diagnosis that actually fits what they've experiencing and im scared of that too.
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I just feel like therapy isn’t working… like I get to talk about myself and understand myself… but I’m already incredibly self aware. My therapist thought I was like 5 years older than I am… and she gives me such basic strategies that do absolutely nothing for me. And a psychiatrist prescribed me with Zoloft… but I don’t know if T want to take medication. I’m scared of side effects… and I’m scared of getting better… I’m scared of letting my guard down. I know it will make me less cautious which makes me less likely to push myself to perfection like I currently do, which I can’t have happen. Every time I talk to my mom about it, she’s always like “Let’s talk about this some other time, I’m busy with other things”, and then never remembers. But in the rare moments we do talk about it, she treats it like I’m signing up to be a drug addict. I also feel very guilty for spending so much of my parents’ money- therapy… medication… etc… and also the idea of my being unlovable is so deeply engraved in my brain… I genuinely, truly believe it. No therapy or medication can fix it. I can’t change my mind. My therapist tells me my misophonia is not a “deal-breaker” and that someone would be lucky to have me as a partner… but then why hasn’t anyone ever liked me? My own FAMILY can’t stand me. How do I believe something I know isn’t true? That’s even harder to accept than me being unlovable. I can’t see someone loving me. And it is so incredibly exhausting to seek love,e I know I cannot have. My sister says, “It will get better with age…” It has only ever gotten worse. To the point I don’t want to get better. It has reached the severity where I feel more safe and successful with anxiety. My past 3 birthdays have been me wishing for therapy. And now I have therpay- and medication, the potential key… and I refuse? Am I too deep in? I cant get out, it’s too late. How did absolutely no one notice how much I had and have been hurting? Why did no one listen to my cries or worries? I feel really depressed and hopeless right now. It takes so much effort to get up every day… I’m so tired.
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