Do I listen to my therapist?

[Potathoe]

I need advice cause I'm terribly aching and lost. I'm 25 almost 26 in May. I have nothing, I do have anxiety and depression. I still live at home, I pay rent here. My mom is 68, she's getting older and I rely on her for a lot. Besides the point, I feel dumb. My social skills are bad. I think I'm slow, and think I'm low intelligence. I missed a lot of school growing up due to a sickness I had. My mom kept me home when I was sick and I got into a habit so in HS I started to skip school. I fell behind in a few classes math and I had a reading class IEP. Other classes I was going at a normal rate as my peers. I got my IEP papers back and it doesn't say any sort of disability. But it said 12th grade it was stabilized.

I've confided in my therapist about this and she said it's just anxiety caused thoughts. I took a few IQ online tests and I got 85 on the mensa Norway then took mensa Denmark and got 102. Then took a ravens based one recently and got 104.

I am a CNA in the hospital and I just feel slow among the other nurses. They are my age and younger. I just feel they are so smart and beautiful and then there's me.

I was reading on reddit about Danielle from 90 day fiancé and they were thinking she was slow, but she's a nurse. Someone mentioned she may have been a nurses aide. I mean I'm certified but I'm worried I am.

I'm so worried... my mom says they didn't suspect anything. Mental health runs in my family. My uncles have been hospitalized for their thinking. My aunt is bipolar, my cousin is institutionalized.

I think everyone knows I'm low intelligence, and they don't say anything. Do I listen to my therapist saying it's anxiety?

[kylee2437]

Your therapist is correct. You’re comparing yourself to other people and under estimating your potential. Maybe you should try to tell your therapist that you want to focus on how to cope with your anxiety a little better and find exercises on how to better your confidence. I think the first step is to just stop comparing yourself and be open to be reachable. Yes there may be smarter people in there than you, but use those people as a tool to learn so you can become the best version of yourself

[Potathoe]

Thank you so much, I'm in need of constant reassurance from people in my life. That's why I come to public forums and ask strangers cause my mom whom I've been asking on the daily if I'm okay. She said she would've caught it if it was something that was there.

I would go to a psychiatrist but my insurance doesn't cover the local one.

[RoastedToast]

You ever thought maybe it's just a matter of experience between you and the other nurses? And it is that difference in experience which is causing a form of inferiority complex. Afterall you said you were homeschooled. It's bound to have some effect on you psychologically.

Just a thought

[RoastedToast]

I think your therapist is right

[Potathoe]

Absolutely, I wasn't homeschooled I went to HS. And public school.

[RoastedToast]

Oh my bad lol I thought hs as in homeschool 😆😏 sorry

[jshm2]

Your therapist is just milking you for money.

An unstable family life and low/no social network to support you, was always going to result in a situation like yours.

Stick with the career but increase your social interactions.

[Potathoe]

So I shouldn't listen to her on the aspect that it's just anxiety?

[boggboss]

Why else would u go to a therapist