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- HaleyK
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- 4y ago
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
Has exercise and meditation really helped?
@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
@Demonrise Have you personally gotten better from exercise and meditation. And if so, how and what did you do each dat
@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
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.
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.
Please help a struggling person This is going to be long and i apologize. Since about 11 I’ve been treated for bipolar disorder and no antipsychotics ever had any effect on me. All made me feel lucid or zombie like. Recently a psychiatrist diagnosed me with ocd and adhd and told me that the two illnesses together can present as bipolar disorder and that’s probably why i was misdiagnosed the majority of my life. I’ve come at a cross roads in my life. I desperately need help but only see my psychiatrist once a month which doesn’t really help. I’m not really a therapy person either. Can someone please help me out and tell me if I’m crazy or if they’ve had similar experiences?? My freshman year i had a 4.0 and was excited at the thought of becoming a med student in the future. Now that it’s summer I’m spiraling. I’m so angry all the time. I won’t let anyone see me or talk to anyone. Im so afraid I’m not good enough and my thoughts consume me. Im constantly worried about the future and have vivid day dreaming episodes of where I’ll end up and how I’m going to fail. I won’t go out and have gained weight and now i constant obsess about my weight and won’t let anyone see me because of what i look like. My thoughts are in patterns and repeat and repeat and won’t go away. I can’t even function anymore. All i do is lay in my bed and think. It’s like a bad movie that won’t turn off. I also won’t allow myself to experience any sort of love connection because I’m terrified of confirming or denying my sexuality. My brain is constant and i feel like there’s nothing that i can do to ever turn it off and feel normal. My intrusive thoughts and starting to become my only thoughts. This panic state has been my state for about 3 weeks now. Can someone give some advice?
I’ve been considering going to therapy or going for a psych evaluation as I am undiagnosed but am concerned after reading online about what and what not to tell people. My issue has everything to do with violent thoughts and i’ve read that some therapists or doctors have been known to call the police or notify those involved in said thoughts and it’s possible to essentially get mentally hospitalized etc etc? i’ve been trying to bring myself to reach out for help for over a year now and this is a huge problem for me. does anyone have any experience w a situation like this or any advice? literally any type of feed back at all is appreciated. Hope everyone is doing well
I’m scared of going to therapy/counseling incase I slip up and tell to much and get put into a mental hospital or CPS will get involved (I am 18 but the age of majority is 19 in my state so until next year I can still be taken and put into a foster home) I’m scared of being on medication, when I was around 8-9 my mom had me so medicated for my anxiety and OCD I would sit there and drool on myself…as embarrassing as it is it’s true. I’m scared of being diagnosed with something else and it limiting me in the future. I’m scared of my therapist/counselor going home at the end of the day and making fun of me or telling my story to people. Anyone else have any experiences like this or advice? Thanks!
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