grozlin
23-07-14, 19:49
Hi, My name is Graham and im 35 years old. I have suffered with anxiety and depression since my early teens and it's slowly been getting worse ever since then. These days it makes going to work very hard each morning. The weekends I have to push myself to leave the house. I avoided the doctors for years because all they ever want to do is send you on counselling courses. I did this once. This involved 1-1 counselling and then also a group therapy. I was completely open to it but nothing worked. The group therapy was nice but only for the reason that it was nice to meet other people that had similar or worse problems. I felt less alone. I also tried SSRI's but they just made me feel worse in various different ways. After these sessions and years of reading self help guides and listening to hypnosis audio I've also developed a large dislike of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). I find it overly simplistic and patronising. I describe it as a posh way of saying "When you notice negative thoughts, think happy thoughts instead". These days im on pregabalin which does help with the generalized anxiety somewhat but not as much as I'd hoped. It's the first thing that has had any real effect.
I have a question if anybody feels like answering? I would describe myself as highly strung sometimes. I don't take criticism well and things can upset me easily and I can feel like I cant cope sometimes. My conscience mind knows that whatever it is im upset about is silly but my unconscious can continue to feel upset for sometime afterwards. What medical condition would you say this is? The closest I can think is low self esteem. The trouble is most therapy's I've read for self esteem are a bit woolly. Things like "Be nice to yourself" and "Treat yourself". I treated myself to a £1000 laptop. That didn't help much, lol.
I have a question if anybody feels like answering? I would describe myself as highly strung sometimes. I don't take criticism well and things can upset me easily and I can feel like I cant cope sometimes. My conscience mind knows that whatever it is im upset about is silly but my unconscious can continue to feel upset for sometime afterwards. What medical condition would you say this is? The closest I can think is low self esteem. The trouble is most therapy's I've read for self esteem are a bit woolly. Things like "Be nice to yourself" and "Treat yourself". I treated myself to a £1000 laptop. That didn't help much, lol.