My second experience of group therapy, which ended pretty much the same way as my first experience of group therapy: with disappointment and frustration
Category: Mental Health (Personal)
This archive Mental Health (Personal) will house every blog post about my mental health problems. For the purpose of spreading knowledge about mental health
As a follow on to my post “Traction Alopecia: The Hair Pulling Question”, I’ll be talking about my life with my hair destroying behaviours.
I discuss the behaviours that lead to me developing permanent traction alopecia and look at which disorder(s) best accounts for those behaviours
My experience with group therapy and the difficulties I have with it, due to it either feeling like I’m the practitioner or I’ve switched off
I tried to lose weight by dieting, but what I found was that I was dieting to misery. Is weight loss worth it if it makes you so miserable?
My experience with one-to-one therapy and being abandoned when I needed the support most by my Mental Health Trust, as my personal situation fell apart
I discuss my experience with dealing with my mail, and how not opening my mail made my mental health worse as I kicked the can down the road
I discuss how my anxiety disorders affect me, their triggers, and how the main fear that my anxiety disorders are based on has changed over the years
My experience with having to go cold turkey from my medications due to my Mental Health Trust. Something that goes against the NICE guidelines
I discuss the background of my anxiety disorders and how substance use played their part in their development: drug-induced psychosis