I feel like my mental health has deteriorated significantly since 2024, and I'll be starting therapy. Could you tell me what you experienced?

[Sevgi]

I feel like my mental health has deteriorated significantly since 2024, and I'll be starting therapy. Could you tell me what you experienced during the therapy process and how the medications affected you?

[genericname85]

i only have good experience with therapy. it's generally a helpfull thing. however i think you have to watch out for 2 things. 1: you just have to find a person that you sort of click with on a mental level. cause if you don't feel understood, it won't help. 2: if instead instead of suggesting books or behavioral changes you could test or highlighting ways in which your thoughts do harm to you, they seem to be checking a list and then suggesting drugs, that should be a red flag. cause these peoples are trying to sell you meds and aren't interested in your wellbeing at all.

[genericname85]

unless you're suffering unbearable emotional stress, meds should be completely off the table.

[Sevgi]

Thank you so much, but I have unbearable stress 🥹🙏

[genericname85]

Well still I think medication just fixes the symptoms and actually reducing your chance of fixing the root cause simply cause the reduced symptoms motivate you less to fix the root cause. If you feel bad, something has to be fixed and meds won't fix that.

[genericname85]

It's like painkillers won't heal a broken leg

[slatyb]

My problem was perhaps less severe -- poor self-image after a neglectful childhood. Also a bit of inherited depression. I take Welbutrin for depression and it seems to be sufficient.

Your experience will likely be completely different. I hope you feel better soon.

[Sevgi]

Thank you so much 🙏 There’s no such thing as a small problem — every person’s pain feels big to them. I truly hope you find happiness too.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Therapy doesn’t involve medication. Psychiatry involves prescriptions, therapists aren’t authorized to give you pills or make medical diagnoses. If you just want medicine, you want a psychiatrist. Therapy is for talking, finding the way to the source of your issues and working through them mentally. It’s a lot of emotional work, you will cry. A lot. But it’ll be a good release for you too.

[Sevgi]

🙏🙏

[Simslover92]

Therapy and medication doesn't work for everyone but it completely changed my life for the better. I have a mental illness that is quite debilitating without medication and the therapy helped in dealing with my depression and anxiety.

You just have to find the right therapist and psychiatrist though.

[Sevgi]

Thank you so much 🙏 I truly hope your mind and heart always stay at peac

[Simslover92]

You're welcome and thank you!

[Pterodon]

Therapy does work but it’s directly proportional to te honesty you put in. You didn’t state what your condition was but some meds do have sexual side effects that will go away in time