While counselling only offer help on the surface level. It's still helpful. Having someone to talk to. Lend an ear and a shoulder to cry to hahaha
You said you don’t open up about your mental health with your uni counselor? Are they the university’s person for mental health? Counselor and therapist could be the same thing. But you might also mean counselor like guidance counselor. For like school work. And then mean your therapist describes meds. Counselors are equipped for mental health discussions - I have 3 years of grad schooling to become one. If you do not open to them about mental health you are not fully using them to the best of your ability. If you don’t feel uncomfortable with them I would try speaking to them about your mental health. If they think medicine is the route you will need to go then they might offer to refer you to a doctor. But it sounds like you have done a lot of healing already! And so to that bravo! It’s not an easy path at all! Wishing you only good vibes ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
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It's just something i choose not to share hahaha. Ik im not using them to the best of their abilities. I did something very not professional of me. I made them my friends all of the counselors there. 5 of them. (╯°Д °)╯╧╧ When you're close with someone, you don't want to show them your bad side, right? Oh god, i want to rewind time. Most of the counselors there are close to my age. The first day i went there. I accompanied my friend.. I have zero interest of doing counselling. One of the counsellor actually tried their best to appeal to me lmao. I said to them, let's be friends. I SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT OMG. BCS OF THAT, I HAVE TROUBLE OPENING UP AAAAAAAAA. Learn my lesson. I'll do my best in my next session with my counsellor. Good luck to me hehe. Goodluck to you too!!!! Thank you and have a nice day ahead ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ
no fr i just made a joke about it but now i feel like relapsing i just contacted a help line like wtf
Gah same I always assume I won’t be triggered but then the urge hits so hard TTnTT Almost a year clean tho and wish everyone who reads this the best!!
me too im almost a year clean too lets do this <33 just overcame the urge luckily
Ahhh I completely understand. And thank you, btw, for being so open here. It’s hard to post things like this. Cause you never know if some ahole on the internet will be nasty for no reason. I wish there was better mental health services for those who are in need but can’t afford it. Sadly (I am totes assuming you are American apologies if this is super wrong) in America our mental health services are sorely underrepresented.
Im asian HAHAHAHAHHA
I saw the trigger warning. Ik what im going to read. But it still triggered past feeling. I've been clean for years. Got past, healing and move on. But damn, i close my phone and think for an hour ... I do go to counselling. Shoulda went to therapist or whatever but i don't have the money for it. Im just relying on my uni counsellor. They're kind. But i never open up about my mental health. It's all in the past and im happier now. But yeah, totally have new topic for discussion hahaha. More work to do. (▰˘◡˘▰)